Friday, April 27, 2018

The Recovering by Leslie Jamison review – on giving up booze

Jamison offers a remarkably wilful reading of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest as a postmodern rehab memoir: “I read Infinite Jest like a desperate old man running his metal detector over the sand, waiting for every ding that signified buried wisdom.” Its author, too, was an alcoholic and drug addict ...

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