Books to Read and Reread

Infinite Jest
By David Foster Wallace

“Wallace imagined America’s absurd future whereas chronicling the inroads the absurd had already made in a rustic the place commercials wallpaper our lives and persons are overdosing on leisure, self-gratification and narcotizing prescription drugs.”

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