The new US cover for Infinite Jest
are they forever joking?
>>7501315
fuck you
>DFW he died 15 years ago
thats definitely kind of shitty
What is this infinite jest by malcolm gladwell? fu k off
>with a new foreword by Tom Bissell
Who the fuck cares
>that font
>that academic white background
>that childish pictograph
>that FONT
raaaagh HULK SMASH
>>7501315
>foreword
Do people actually read this crap?
>>7501315
Looks horrible.
well i guess it's better than the other cover. I kept thinking it was one of those airline magazines they have on the plane, only somehow it was more boring than glazing at discounted Swarovski knock-offs I'm never going to buy.
Did a child made it
>>7501344
>better than the other cover
"no"
>>7501344
Infinite jest loses all of its power without a melancholy blue sky on the cover.
>>7501355
ya but putting a tv on the cover is more edgy and ppl who want to be edgy are the prime market for wallace merchandise
>>7501334
>>that academic white background
I always thought white to quite fitting for this novel. Pic related.
>>7501362
>an endlicker spaz
is that real
>tfw the Swiss style rules Web 3.0 but book publishers have forgotten about it
God damn that is ugly as fuck.
I sure hope I'll still be able to buy the blue cover online in a few weeks.
>>7501344
The clouds make so much sense once you're about halfway through the book though. The scene in which the cloud motif on some wallpaper is hashed out is one of the most rewarding parts of the novel, plus they remind one of the sky in Arizona and the way EWD makes use of the nation's airspace. Having the cover start to seem appropriate was a common experience for so many people reading Infinite Jest.
i like it a lot
>>7501340
Christ, it all makes sense now.
>>7501315
Had that been the first cover, the book would've had ZERO meme potential. You know it's true.
>>7501355
100% agree with you mate, the blank blue hardcover without a jacket is also very based however.
Seems like a cover for "1984: abridged for kids"
>>7501376
same here
>>7501315
DIDNT THEY DO A FUCKING CONTEST FOR THIS
WHAT THE FUCK
>>7501315
So is this a suggestion? Or is it actually being changed to this?
This fictitious cover is the best, tbs*.
*to be [i]sincere[/i]
>>7501394
>crowdsourcing graphic design
>for free
>degrading an artful profession thanks to crass global commercialism
The post-irony is astounding
what a joke
>>7501394
yea but like most contests it was just a marketing scam to generate interest in the new edition and the ultimately gave it to some jew's cousin who goes to yale with out looking at the submissions
>>7501400
are u sure thats a tenis racket? it looks sort of badmintony to me
Hot brown turds that come out of my asshole studded with gold corns and cracked elaborately allowing you to peer into the soft core that lies darkly tender beneath the tough dry bark-like surface like a brownie baked in a pinecone that catches the light and sparkles like a mineral
>>7501398
Its the winner of the cover contest they held
>>7501346
this. When Dave Eggers first reviewed he called it a try-hard effort and wasn't impressed by it, then in his forward he says there's not one lazy sentence in the whole book, which IJ fans will disagree with ("Get to the library and step on it."). Eggers is scum who wrote a forward just as a career move to get his name on the cover of IJ.
>>7501445
also to absolve his sin of pointing out that infinite jest sucked, after it became a "national bestseller" his publisher gave him a chance to backpedal and fall in line, which he happily did, lil bitch
>>7501315
It's fitting.
The cover itself is an infinite jest.
Joe Walsh! A designer who has worked in illustration, animation and film. He is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati’s School of Design and has worked in San Francisco, Cincinnati, and New York. He is currently working as a designer for Joe Walsh Design.
The winning artwork was selected by a committee including Wallace’s wife, the artist Karen Green, and his longtime editor and CEO of Hachette Book Group, Michael Pietsch. The new edition will publish on February 23, 2016 and will feature a new foreword by Tom Bissell.
>>7501508
I will make sure not to buy it
>>7501508
I fucking hate his face and his facial hair.
>>7501508
>women on the committee
That explains it.
>>7501548
Yeah, most of the times the wife is a woman. Back to /pol/.
>>7501551
*time
>>7501551
>Yeah, most of the times the wife is a woman.
This has nothing to do with what he said. Go back to Reddit.
>>7501551
heteronormative post, cisfascist, check ur pee asshole
>>7501551
Kill yourself.
>>7501315
(brand new) French version
>>7501571
too nostalgic i can already smell the mildew and yellow from here, who ever designed that shit spends too much times in used bookshops
>>7501556
My bad, I meant tumblr.
>>7501571
>translations
>>7501364
Unendlicher is supposed to be one word.
Also,
>not spelling it as Spaß
triggered.jpg
>>7501576
>implying I bother myself to read in English
>>7501576
Well, in his defense, the title is not that easy to translate.
>>7501578
>ß
absolutely nazi
>>7501571
Unendlicker Spass
L'infinie comedie
luckily in italian the title hasn't been translated :DDD
>>7501595
Unendlicker Spass
Never Ending Fun!
Should've used this instead.
>>7501760
Cover looks way too drab and grim for Infinite Jest imo
>>7501405
Tennis rackets used to be like that.
Than they made it easier for noobs.
>>7501764
That's actually the cover DFW originally wanted.
>tfw impulse buy the current version that I may never read
>>7501405
how fucking young are you?
>>7501862
lol bye
>>7501863
fuck a mod, the jap don't give a shit about ages
>>7501867
there have been plenty of bans for underage users since moot left.
>>7501870
mods ain't gonna do shit stop being a lil bitch
>>7501790
No discernible taste
>>7501315
Wow, a book about the social and cultural influence of the ubiquitous, all-powerful television! This novel will surely remain relevant and readable well into the twenty-first century.
Did I mention it's 900 pages long? Impressive.
>>7501338
Depends who it's by. If the author wrote it, then yes I'll probably read it.
Otherwise no.
>>7501888
what you mean criticizing tv won't be edgy in another 50 years? but those books criticizing comic books for ruining american youth are still relevant, so why wouldn't a book on television!?
![david-foster-wallace-infinite-jest[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/RPsPr7G.jpg "david-foster-wallace-infinite-jest[1].jpg")
I got this cover. It's alright.
>>7501896
what the fuck kind of faggot writes a forward to his own book
>>7501873
Shut the fuck up, Harold. The veins in your hand are all swollen, meandering there like some violet worms. A concrete sign that you'll go to dust soon so your opinion doesn't matter, and while it's true that not all authors go down in history, it's obvious that none of their critics will.
>>7501899
I fell in love with the original hardcover
http://pooryorickentertainment.tumblr.com/
list of other submitted covers
tl;dr they are all better than the one chosen
>>7501903
Only one that comes to mind is Burgess in an edition of A Clockwork Orange. Was pretty cool actually, he dislikes the book.
>>7501315
Ayy, that cover? No
only a poster, but hey here you go
and then
>>7501899
it is indeed amazing.
slight variant i guess more ominous
En español.
>>7503225
I take it the quote meant that IJ fans urged each other to get to the library and step on the Eggers edition?
>>7503528
No way, that would make zero sense.
>>7503531
I dunno. I haven't read IJ nor do I give a shit about it's history. It could just be bad phrasing on anon's part - at least that's what I concluded as he made zero sense if it wasn't.
>>7501445
>"Get to the library and step on it."
That's a joke you idiot.
So apparently this Tom Bissell fella is a video game writer? When did anyone care about the opinions of video game writers?
>>7503538
Haha, I was so, so wrong
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/177489-i-do-things-like-get-in-a-taxi-and-say
>>7501400
I would buy this cover
>>7501400
Close but no cigar.
>>7501486
This cover is something of a guilty pleasure for me, desu. The scrawny, and clip-artish style of the drawings gives sort of a humdrum, lethargic, "this is what life is nowadays" feel, and the different images get the scope of the novel across, sorta like the "Where's Waldo" Pynchon covers.
>>7501334
>Who the fuck cares
better than Dave Eggers desu senpai
>>7501383
the book without its cover resembles the AA Big Book, which I've never been sure is intentional or not, considering DFW was always upset about not having control over his covers.
>>7501480
>the quirky wes anderson meme
This cover looks like a kawaii desu square headed cyclops, from an anime, blushing and smiling.
>>7503187
I like this, bullshit res though
>>7501315
better
meh. not too crazy about red on white.
>>7501858
I wasn't born in the 30s
>>7506171
fuck can someone do this for me i dont know any jews
>can be made in less than 5 minutes in paint
>>7505000
Eggers foreword is shit but thankfully it's short.
>So yeah here's this great book so go ahead and enjoy ;)
I'm glad nobody reads him anymore.
>>7506183
But that's what makes it good!!!!!! haha :DDDD
I don't want to start another thread on IJ, so I'll ask it here. IJ is postmodern or post-postmodern? And if someone can ELI5 the difference between the two. Thank you in advance.
>>7506183
>A new forward
>>7507429
>ELI5
Back ro reddit
>>7507429
Postmodern. Any genre made after postmodernism is actually just a meme or a weird engineering of a group of words used in a desperate attempt at self-validation by pseudointellectuals.
Don't fall for it. Unemployed millenial art students with six figures of debt sit at home and frantically make up bullshit to hide the reality of their own lives from their stream of consciousness.
>Portuguese
Neat.
Is IJ readable on e-readers?
>>7501400
Shit that girl is hot. Fuck that girl is hot
>>7507494
The answer is yes, but it very much depends on how you want to read IJ. I like taking notes, character maps, writing in the vocab, and easy flipping back to past chapters, so I need a physical copy.
If I just wanted to read it casually, the ereader might work better. The footnotes might also be a bit problematic, but I heard some digital copies have integrated footnotes or something like that.
I'd go with a physical copy for your first read, then consider digital.
>Inhnite Jest
>>7507429
The point that >>7507488 makes is almost right. IJ is definitely a post-modern piece of literature, but only just. From about 2000 onwards, postmodernism died and was replaced by whatever it is that we are now living in.
Postmodernism is a reactionary movement. It is primarily reacting to the social conditions of the West in the late 20th century. The rise of the internet, mobile phones, space travel, robots, etc. The rate of change was so rapid as to inspire some of the most convoluted, scientific and banal works of literature we have ever seen.
There's a lot of discussion concerning whether literature has moved out of its postmodern era. I think that we should ask instead whether the West has moved out of its swift technological revolution.
I don't think that we're out of that period just yet - there is still a lot that is just on the verge of being invented and becoming essential for human life, especially in terms of medicine. For further predictions on the future see Harari's "A Brief History of Humankind".
The fact of the matter is though that we will eventually move from these tempestuous conditions to something a lot calmer, and once that happens we can find a style to adapt our literature to.
This isn't speculation either. It all happened in the 19th century after the Industrial Revolution and it will happen again.
