June 23rd, 2009
It is clear that the peaks in Wallace’s writing are an order of magnitude greater than the occasional valleys. And based on the first 20 pages of Infinite Jest, [it] looks as though the peaks in this novel will be so plentiful that altitude sickness will pose the biggest threat. Like a climber headed toward his first summit, I am filled with an excitement tinged with apprehension, and a hope that I have enough oxygen for the journey.

Matthew Baldwin (not one of those Baldwins), father of Infinite Summer, of Defective Yeti, and sometimes The Morning News and Layer Tennis.

This is gonna be so rad—I mean hard. Rad too, though. I’ve already had to look up about fifteen words. I am not used to reading this way.

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