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Wallace was an amazingly intelligent, witty and wonderful author of fiction and nonfiction who died last year at the age of 46. I've read a fair bit of Wallace's writing including some of his wonderfully insightful essays in A Supposedly Fun Thing I Will Never Do Again and Consider the Lobster, and more recently his novel Infinite Jest. I consider myself a fan of his writing, but I always feel like there is so much more to it that what I am grasping. I'm not alone: Wallace's fiction is notoriously difficult, but its that difficulty that, in some part, established his reputation as "one of the most influential and innovative writers of the last 20 years".
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This summer, a group of American authors decided to take on the difficulty of Wallace's most famous novel together and to chronicle their reading of Infinite Jest in a blog. They invited others to join along with them and Infinite Summer was born. Clearly there is something to having the support of a group in taking on a big book, Infinite Summer has swept through the blogosphere and been written up in Newsweek, The Globe and Mail and numerous other news sources.
The program at the library - which co-incidentally is timed almost perfectly with the ending of Infinite Summer - will be presented by Dalhousie English Professor Dr. David McNeil.
Dr. McNeil is a fan of David Foster Wallace, and of Infinite Jest in particular. He'll be here at the library to talk about Infinite Jest, and David Foster Wallace in general: to offer comments and insight into the author and his writings. If you're also a fan of David Foster Wallace, you're sure to find this program interesting.
Remembering David Foster Wallace
Spring Garden Rd. Memorial Public Library
Tuesday, September 15/7:00 pm
Remembering David Foster Wallace
Spring Garden Rd. Memorial Public Library
Tuesday, September 15/7:00 pm
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