Infinite Jest
From kwharrison13.com · Anti-library
Infinite Jest
| Author | David Foster Wallace |
|---|---|
| Published | 1996 |
| Pages | 1,104 |
| Recommended | 2 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | David Foster Wallace’s thousand-page novel of a near-future North America, braided from a Boston halfway house, an elite junior tennis academy and the search for a film so absorbing that anyone who watches it loses the will to do anything else. Addiction, entertainment and the exhaustion of irony are its subjects, and its length and endnotes are part of the argument. |
Where I heard about it
- @tylercosgrove — on his list of 25 books he offered to send to Jared Kushner, October 2025 — the only novel on a list otherwise made of history and business.
- Named in David Perell’s “every discipline has a book that everybody references, but nobody reads” thread on X (September 2020); — Every discipline has a book… (tweet).
Connections
- Every discipline has a book… (tweet) — recommended it.
- Literature — the frame this belongs in rather than any business thesis.
- Republic of Letters — the portfolio idea that covers reading fiction as its own kind of infrastructure.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.