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  "path": "/design-living/16939/infinite-jest-david-foster-wallace-what-is-the-book-about-anniversary?utm_source=Link&utm_medium=Link&utm_campaign=RSSFeed&utm_term=30-years-on-infinite-jest-offers-a-map-to-an-increasingly-chaotic-world",
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  "textContent": "\n\n**Infinite Jest** is probably a novel that more people have heard of than have actually read. The 1,000 page-plus opus – that oscillates between a tennis academy, a halfway house, and the hunt for a lethally entertaining videotape, all with a dizzying number of footnotes for good measure – has, in the three decades since it was first published, become something of a meme; a shorthand for the kind of book that everybody talks about and that nobody has read. Ithellip;\n\nread more raquo;\n\n\n\n",
  "title": "30 Years On, Infinite Jest Offers a Map to an Increasingly Chaotic World",
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