Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Shhh! Keep quiet and I will let you in on a secret.
Nobody dares say this in the literary world, but novelists have scaled back their ambitions in recent years. All big projects have been put on hold. Special clauses are being inserted in publishing contracts. I have it on good authority that you can’t write a novel longer than 650 pages without getting …
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