Stalking the Behemoth: "Infinite Jest," by David Foster Wallace

Infinite Jest By David Foster Wallace Little, Brown, 1996 Reviewed by Chris Schahfer It's hard to talk too much about David Foster Wallace without mentioning the huge cultural moment he's having right now, and it's hard to talk about that cultural moment without feeling dismayed that it's him and not his books that are having that moment. The path his reputation's on now, which to my way of seeing things ends with him reduced from a writer to an image of a writer (as has happened to Kerouac...