The novel is both huge and encyclopaedic. Wallace had been working on it on and off for about six or seven years, and got deeply into it from 1991 or so onwards. Infinite Jest took a surprisingly short time to write, remembering it stretches to almost a thousand pages. But the books, especially the book that is the subject of this piece, an offspring of sorts, abides. He had no children, being concerned that any offspring might inherit his illness. Tragically, once he came off the meds, the depression came back with a vengeance. This was mainly because of its horrible side effects. David Wallace took his own life in 2008 after being taken off an antidepressant, Phenelzine, by his doctor. In fact his demons never left him, not really. David Foster Wallace had been struggling with addiction and chronic depression for years. This book had come out of a long dark time of suffering for Wallace.
The publicists used little cards that were sent to other publications with the teaser phrases like ‘Infinite Writer’ and ‘Infinite Pleasure’. The people at Little Brown really knew what they were doing. Around 1996, Infinite Jest, written by David Foster Wallace, was published by Little Brown. The conversation is lengthy, being carried on over five days. The two writers are talking about a very big book by one of the writers.
A movie has come out about a conversation between two writers.
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