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readonlymemory.com
Read-Only Memory’s next book is a 256-page survey of fifty indie games from the past fifteen years, including Hyper Light Drifter, Tunic, GRIS, DREDGE, 1000xRESIST, Genesis Noir, Abzû, A Short Hike and more. Looks wonderful.
tomrowley.substack.com
Tom Rowley asks publishers, agents and the boss of the Booker why fiction still debuts in hardback when readers clearly prefer paperbacks. The answer is margin; the first edition is a “glorified marketing tool” for the paperback a year later. Indies are already breaking the pattern: Fitzcarraldo has always done paperback-first, and Faber recently published Eliza Clark’s “She’s Always Hungry” in both formats simultaneously. Fine for non-fiction and cookbooks. For a novel you want to shove in a bag, less so.
samizdat.co
A growing set of interactive visualisations from Christian Swineheart that map the internal structure of Infinite Jest—its scrambled chronology, endnote architecture, character networks, etc.
ericdharvey.substack.com
An essay on "Peak Indie," inspired by Chris DeVille's book Such Great Heights
www.newyorker.com
David Foster Wallace’s novel, in all its immensity, became the subject of sanctification and then scorn. But the work rewards the attention it demands.
lewishugo.substack.com
With the 30 year anniversary of Infinite Jest approaching, it's time to look back on Wallace's 1996 magnum opus and uncover what it can teach us about life in America, now.
kk.org
This essay is also available on my Substack. Subscribe here: https://kevinkelly.substack.com/ In my professional life, I’ve had several bestselling books published by New York publishers, as well as many other titles that sold modestly. I have also self-published a bunch … Continue reading →