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The Audio Book Club on David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest.

Posted Monday, June 29, 2009, at 6:22 PM

Thousands of socially networked bibliophiles have pledged to tackle David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest over three months this summer, endnotes and all, as part of the Infinite Summerchallenge. Back in March, Troy Patterson, Katie Roiphe, and James Surowiecki waded through the massive tome for Slate's "Audio Book Club." Use the player below to listen to their discussion. You can also download the file here.

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Troy Patterson is Slate's television critic.

Katie Roiphe, professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University, is the author most recently of Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Marriages, and the forthcoming In Praise of Messy Lives.

James Surowiecki writes the financial column at The New Yorker.