What else can I say about Infinite Jest? While I have not read this monument, I know enough to worship it. Many consider David Foster Wallace to have been the finest author of the age. Come to think of it, I have not read most of Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, or Don DeLillo’s White Noise, but I still know literary pyrotechnics when I see them (reading requires more work.)
While I am not a poster child for the “po mo“, I love the basic idea–which essentially is to eschew the (very) recent past and create something of seeming profundity from a blank page.*
* Proven technique with the opposite sex.
