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David Foster Wallace's Infinite jest: a reader's guide Stephen Burn
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group

David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest was the best science fiction novel I read in the 1990s, and remains one of the best novels I've ever read in the genre. I used to keep a list of songs and albums that I would try to find. A great accomplishment for the non-fiction writer is making a reader out of someone more likely to be a non-reader because of his lack of interest, lack of time, or lack of commitment to the words on the page. The more tightly argued ideas of the first part: the disparate pieces are connected by bold-faced transitional and contextualizing passages (as well as footnotes) that rival those in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest for their extensiveness. July 28, 2010 by Paul Debraski. Even before being totally blown away by Infinite Jest, I'd already considered David Foster Wallace as my favorite writer. This week I'm tackling Infinite Jest again, with the help of Stephen Burns's reader's guide. SOUNDTRACK: SERENA MANEESH-”Sapphire Eyes” (2005). Stephen Burn–David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest: A Reader's Guide (2003). I couldn't have had a better guide, and discovered so much about the world through his writing.