Books can be difficult to teach for several reasons. They can be too stuffy, profane, archaic, mundane or pretentious. There are many students who would happily banish novels like these from their ...

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There are few books that carry quite so much baggage as David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. The 1,079-page tome is a sprawling, indulgent, prescient, imaginative and altogether utterly idiosyncratic ...

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William Beutler’s painstakingly detailed "Infinite Atlas" provides yet another layer to David Foster Wallace’s famously dense work. Infographic of the Day: A Map of Infinite Jest’s Zillion Characters ...