He accepted cuts amounting to around 250 manuscript pages from his original submission. Pietsch made suggestions and recommendations to Wallace, but every editing decision was Wallace's. The book was edited by publisher Little, Brown and Company's Michael Pietsch. įrom early 1992 until the novel's publication, excerpts from various drafts appeared sporadically in magazines and literary journals including Harvard Review, Grand Street, Conjunctions, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Harper's Magazine, The Iowa Review, The New Yorker and the Los Angeles Times Magazine. His efforts in 1991–92 were more productive. Wallace began Infinite Jest, "or something like it", at various times between 19. The novel has an unconventional narrative structure and includes hundreds of extensive endnotes, some with footnotes of their own.Ī literary fiction bestseller after having sold 44,000 hardcover copies in its first year of publication, the novel has since sold more than a million copies worldwide. Categorized as an encyclopedic novel, Infinite Jest is featured in TIME magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 19. Infinite Jest is a 1996 novel by American writer David Foster Wallace.
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