Editing Infinite Jest (section)

{{short description|1996 novel by David Foster Wallace}}
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{{Infobox book
| name = Infinite Jest
| image = Infinite jest cover.jpg
| author = [[David Foster Wallace]]
| cover_artist =
| country = United States
| language = English
| genre = {{hlist|[[New sincerity]]|[[metamodernism]]|[[literary fiction]]||[[post-postmodernism]]|[[encyclopedic novel]]|[[science fiction]]}}
| publisher = [[Little, Brown and Company]]
| pub_date = February 1, 1996
| media_type = Print ([[hardcover]]{{·}} [[paperback]])
| pages = 1,079
| isbn = 978-0-316-92004-9
| dewey = 813/.54 20
| congress = PS3573.A425635
}}
'''''Infinite Jest''''' is a 1996 novel by American writer [[David Foster Wallace]]. Categorized as an [[encyclopedic novel]],<ref>Burn, Stephen J. [http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/4235/ Abstract.] ''"At the edges of perception": William Gaddis and the encyclopedic novel from Joyce to David Foster Wallace.'' 2001, doctoral thesis, Durham University.</ref> ''Infinite Jest'' is featured in ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005.<ref name="Time">{{Cite magazine |last1=Grossman |first1=Lev |last2=Lacayo |first2=Richard |date=16 October 2005 |title=TIME's Critics pick the 100 Best Novels, 1923 to present |magazine=TIME |url=https://entertainment.time.com/2005/10/16/all-time-100-novels/slide/infinite-jest-1996-by-david-foster-wallace/}}</ref>

The novel has an unconventional [[narrative structure]] and includes hundreds of extensive [[endnote]]s, some with footnotes of their own.

A literary fiction bestseller after having sold 44,000 hardcover copies in its first year of publication,<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Holub |first=Christian |title=Infinite Jest, 20 years later |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |url=http://www.ew.com/article/2016/02/26/infinite-jest-20th-anniversary}}</ref> the novel has since sold more than a million copies worldwide.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Winter |first=Infinite |date=2016-04-06 |title=Michael Pietsch Interview |url=http://infinitewinter.org/michael-pietsch-interview/ |access-date=April 7, 2016 |archive-date=January 22, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122121334/http://infinitewinter.org/michael-pietsch-interview/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>