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Feb 04, 2026
New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman, critic Laura Miller, author Greg Jackson, author Bennett Sims, and others join us for a roundtable conversation about David Foster Wallace and his tragicomic magnum opus, Infinite Jest, in celebration of its 30th anniversary.
A mind-altering philosophical quest and screwball comedy about the pursuit of happiness in America, Infinite Jest was a breakthrough when it was published in 1996 — not just for its young author, David Foster Wallace, but for the art of the novel. Ranging from an addicts' halfway house to an elite tennis academy to a Quebecois separatist group in possession of a lethally amusing videotape, Infinite Jest is a story about addiction, human salvation, and entertainment's power to bring us together and tear us apart: wildly brilliant, deeply moving, and more relevant than ever.
In celebration of the novel’s 30th anniversary — and a new edition introduced by Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast (author of Crying in H Mart) — join Deborah Treisman (Wallace's editor at The New Yorker) Laura Miller, Greg Jackson, and others for a conversation about the novel’s monumental impact: how Wallace created an American answer to In Search of Lost Time, his uncanny prophecies of internet culture and the dangers of social media, his influence on a new generation of millennial writers, and much more.
If you allow yourself to trust-fall into the barbed intricacies of [Infinite Jest], you will discover soft, exquisite humanity as its perennial landing.” — Michelle Zauner
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