![]() ![]() On the other hand, there are those who feel that fiction can be challenging, generally and thematically, and even on a sentence-by-sentence basis - that it’s okay if a person needs to work a bit while reading, for the rewards can be that much greater when one’s mind has been exercised and thus (presumably) expanded. In essence, there are some people who feel that fiction should be easy to read, that it’s a popular medium that should communicate on a somewhat conversational wavelength. In recent years, there have been a few literary dustups - how insane is it that such a thing exists in a world at war? - about readability in contemporary fiction. But first, enjoy Dave Eggers's brilliant introduction to Infinite Jest, written in 2006 two years before David Foster Wallace's untimely death at the age of 46. ![]() See a selection of the jacket designs in the gallery at the bottom of the piece. They include monolithic memoirs by Primo Levi and Nelson Mandela, seminal British fiction from the likes of Beryl Bainbridge and Iain Banks, and significant works of contemporary American literature such as Infinite Jest and Candace Bushnell's Sex and the City. ![]()
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