Who recommends it
- Kathryn Paige HardenInterview
I think fiction and memoir writers give the best introduction to psychology. Psychology, after all, is about people. Three books in those genres that I would assign to Intro Psych undergraduates: Dispatches by Michael Herr, The Recovering by Leslie Jamison, selections from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
- Daniel HamermeshInterview
Numerous of them. Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, of course; and Magister Ludi and Siddhartha by Herman Hesse (read it 3 times, in German).
- Peter AttiaInterview
Very little, as I’m wring my first book and it’s too easy to procrastinate on writing by reading more. I have always wanted to read Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace… maybe this is the year.
- Michael KutscheInterview
I would also include: Burning Chrome by William Gibson, Hard Boiled Wonderland by Haruki Murakami, Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace are books that I’m looking forward to spend time with.
- Tom PriceInterview
I’m really into political stuff at the moment – I wonder why – and I also plan to take on Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace and the new Jonathan Franzen. The reality, though, is that I’ll be so tired I’ll reach for my comfort reads. Anything set in the first or second world wars, or anything that’s based on…
- Daniel RigbyInterview
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace; Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke; A Confederacy Of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole; The Ask by Sam Lipsyte; The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin; Great Expectations by Charles Dickens; Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut.
- Ian FrancisInterview
Probably Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, although I’m not sure how successful I’ve been with getting people to read it. Actually that’s not true, I am sure that I’ve failed to get anyone to read it.
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