Fancy That: 1st Edition “Infinite Jest”

There’s nothing like your first crush. And if you’re anything like us, you crush hard and often. This is where we pay homage to all things worthy of lusting after.

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Kay fancies her original first-edition copy of Infinite Jest, the Most Important Novel of the late author David Foster Wallace. Obtained in 1997, read twice, perused often, imitated on more occasions than one would care to admit, and lost somewhere between Nebraska and California, the absence of which has left a gaping hole in more than this reader’s bookshelf (at 1,079 pages, it’s a barn of a book). It would have been the ideal companion for the approaching season’s Infinite Summer reading group, which will tackle the tome at a manageable pace of 75 pages per week from June 21 - September 22. Thousands of readers are joining this “Internet hurricane,” which just happens to fall in the actual Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment, when the bulk of the story takes place. (Read the book.)

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