December 1st, 2010 / 1:40 pm
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Michael Pietsch’s Editor Letter to Wallace Re: Infinite Jest

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14 Comments

  1. December 1st, 2010 / 7:10 pm Igor—

      I gasped at the suggested cut of the MASH story. Interesting.

  2. December 1st, 2010 / 8:44 pm Ken Baumann—

      Thanks for posting this.

  3. December 1st, 2010 / 9:58 pm Janey Smith—

      This kind of stuff really fascinates me.

  4. December 1st, 2010 / 10:13 pm michael—

      ELIMINATE ALL JAMAIS VU

  5. December 2nd, 2010 / 3:55 am Sean—

      What are the hand-written comments in margins? Are they DFW?

  6. December 2nd, 2010 / 5:59 am EC Groom—

      Geez…I’m gonna have to read this TWICE?! UGH.

  7. December 2nd, 2010 / 6:42 pm Becky—

      Is this a wiki-leak ?

  8. December 3rd, 2010 / 12:31 pm Looks & Books » Best of the Looks, Best of the Books 12/3/10—

      […] interesting read: a letter from David Foster Wallace’s editor at Penguin on his first impressions of Infinite […]

  9. December 3rd, 2010 / 11:48 pm Becky—

      I think I misspelled Wikileaks. Isn’t anyone else curious how Butler got this letter? Or is this information somewhere on the site and I just can’t find it ? It’s incredibly helpful to me because I just finished reading IJ for the first time and realized I needed to re-read it for the reasons that Pietsch cites….

  10. December 3rd, 2010 / 11:57 pm Trey—

      it links to a tumblr. I don’t think Blake runs that tumblr. no idea how the person who originally posted them got them though, but it might be somewhere on the original site.

  11. December 4th, 2010 / 5:30 am RyanPard—

      It’s from the DFW archive in texas.

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  13. January 13th, 2014 / 1:44 pm Best Thing on the Internet Today: David Foster Wallace's Birthday Round-Ups | Toronto Standard Toronto Standard—

      […] 50th Birthday (the most comprehensive list, covers everything from DFW’s childhood, to Michael Pietsch’s letter to Wallace about editing Infinite Jest, to D.T. Max’s famous New Yorker profile of the […]

  14. February 10th, 2014 / 12:03 pm L’angolo del libro: appunti su Infinite Jest | Il mondo urla dietro la porta—

      […] dell’editor quando Wallace gli ha presentato il manoscritto. A tal proposito ho ritrovato la lettera dell’editor Michael Pietsch, dove confessa di essere entusiasta di collaborare con l’autore per pubblicare l’opera e, dopo […]