On February 1, 1996 – twenty years ago – David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest was released in bookstores, one of the most important and discussed works, but perhaps proportionally less read, of modern literature. The novel – if we can call it a novel – was launched by the publisher Little, Brown and Company as the book that would change American literature. It was an instant success. By the end of March, Infinite Jest – 1079 pages long with an appendix of 388 footnotes – had been reprinted six times, and twenty years ago reprints were not as slimmed down as they can be today. Within a few months, Foster Wallace – who at that time was 34 years old and teaching at Illinois State University – became something of a rock star of literature. The rest was taken care of by his long hair and bandana, his massive build and shoulders, and his suicide by hanging that occurred on September 12, 2008. (quoted from ilpost.it on February 1, 2016)
What can I say? I have made it past the halfway point of this book or novel titled