This is something I wouldn’t actually expect, but if anyone could pull it off, it seems PTA would be the guy, especially because of the director’s adaptations of various Thomas Pynchon novels, an author DFW was inspired by.
Crazy timing, I just finished my second read and wrapped up Although You End Up BecomingYourself, then I show up at a friend’s house and this is on the counter.
I have 200 pages left in this behemoth. Started back in February, right after Valentine’s Day. Loving every minute of it, very stimulating read after spending the last few years reading Pynchon, Gaddis, Gass etc. I will say I was expecting more of their influence but DFW reminds me most of the master DeLillo. Please rally me up as I race towards the finish line
I want to read a lot DFW, but I don’t know where to start. I know I don’t have to read it first with Infinite Jest. The only thing, by now that I have read by the author is the book This Is Water and I loved it but it’s a speech and I want to read a collection of essays, short stories or a novel
Books in the picture:
If Infinite Jest enough to understand DFW? Or should collect all of his books, which is impossible for me?
Beautiful section