Preview: D.T. Max on David Foster Wallace’s Boston




Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon show

Summary: Listen: DFW's Infinite Boston, Thursday 9pm, WBUR Biographer D. T. Max on David Foster Wallace: "David is the author of his time who has the fairest chance to be read 50 years from now... I really feel the way David touched the themes of the 1990s - themes of addiction and excessive entertainment in American culture have become even more outstanding and more relevant to most of us, and when you reread Infinite Jest today - it's really a novel that's fundamentally about television and video, but you read it today and you think you're reading a novel about the Internet."