Compulsive Reader talks

Compulsive Reader talks


Mark Flanagan on David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest and Infinite Winter

March 03, 2016

Mark Flanagan is the ounder and editor of Run Spot Run, an online book review website, and the instigator behind Infinite Winter, and online book club of hundreds of readers who have banded together to jointly read David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest in celebration of the book’s 20th anniversary.  He joins us to talk about Infinite Jest's timeless and ongoing appeal, about what its like to group read it for the second time, about the value of a slow, attentive reading, about the guides and resources provided at Infinite Winter, about some of the more interesting things that have come out of his group reading, about what he's looking forward to, and lots more.