wallace-l: DFW Joke In Forthcoming Novel

[Joe Allonby]

This is enough to make me check this out.

When I was first reading "Infinite Jest" I was living and working in
Allston. I worked on Rugg Rd where the drug dealers lived in campers lined
up on one side of the street. I was getting constant jolts of recognition
as I read. I knew people who lived in Granada House during recovery.

One morning I walked into Herrell's Ice Cream and coffee shop to get my
morning coffee and still warm blueberry muffin. Yeah, the ice cream shop on
the corner of Harvard and Brighton Aves. The barista was my friend Paige
with whom I often traded books.
"Paige, have you read 'Infinite Jest?'"
"Yeah, I know. How the FUCK do we not know this guy?"


On Tue, Apr 5, 2022 at 5:34 PM Paul Cray <pmcray at gmail.com> wrote:

> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Michael Gural-Maiello <destor23 at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2022 at 20:13
> Subject: wallace-l: DFW Joke In Forthcoming Novel
> To: wallace-l <wallace-l at waste.org>
>
>
> From End of the World House, out in late April by Adrienne Celt:
>
> "One Sunday afternoon, while browsing his bookshelf -- paltry, masculine,
> but not illiterate -- she found a childhood photo of him stuck between
> *Gravity's
> Rainbow* and *Infinite Jest*, and gasped at her instant sense of
> recognition."
>
> It gave me a chuckle. I like the use of Pynchon and Wallace here in not the
> usual way.
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