{"id":240893,"date":"2021-12-10T01:40:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T07:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mindseyemag.com\/magazine\/?p=240893"},"modified":"2026-04-10T02:31:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T07:31:36","slug":"infinite-jest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindseyemag.com\/magazine\/infinite-jest\/","title":{"rendered":"Infinite Jest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pin.it\/21CFk4gOj\"><em>Image Source<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A gargantuan, mind-altering tragi-comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America.<\/p>\n<p>Set in an addicts&#8217; halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction,\u00a0<i>Infinite Jest<\/i>\u00a0explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are.<\/p>\n<p>Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy,\u00a0<i>Infinite Jest<\/i>\u00a0bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. 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