Infinite Jest Book Club
Episodes
IJBC S3, Ep 15a
14 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
smdh
IJBC S3, Ep 15: Are these idiots still talking?
12 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Yup. We are almost at the end of our journey, a nearly page by page breakdown of Infinite Jest. Today we about Barry Loach, The made by allusions to o...
IJBC S3, Ep 14
16 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Does anyone know?
IJBC S3, Ep 12- You Ain't Gonna Learn What You Don't Wanna Know
12 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We talk some Accomplice!, some Bob Weir, Himself's filmography, frogs, and more!!Thank you, Bobstar. For everything.Photo Credit Jay Blakesberg C...
IJBS S3, Ep 11 ACCOMPLICE!
14 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Another holiday tradition
Cosgrove Watt was a pro, but he was not very good. (sic)
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We are almost at the end of our journey through Infinite Jest
IJBC S3, Ep 9 In the mind of DW Gately
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lets spend a couple hours in the trauma wing
Harold James and Michael Matthew have a spat
07 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We are up to page 911. Also some Mulholland drive talk
IJBC S3, Ep7 Meaning from angle of incidence redux
17 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Department of redundancy department
Dilaudid-colored Sky
13 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We get to page 891!!!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYClQ2BCo_k
IJBC S3, Ep 5 Ablutions, eh?
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What is happening? Who's there? Are you on drugs?
Full of the sound and fury...
04 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A small break from working through the book to talk about some big picture stuff. Which probably doesn't matter?
IJBC S3, E3- Wait
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Don Gately lays on the bed and thinks or dreams and about things. And regrets
Infinite Jest Book Club, S3, Ep 2 A Garden Variety Wraith
02 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Infinite Jest, Wallace, endnotes
IJBS Season 3, Episode 1- Mama Ewell at a speculum party
02 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
And other assorted tall tales
IJBC S2, Ep 4 Kevin cries for all of us
05 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This will be the last episode of season 2. Season 3 is coming soon!
Infinite Jest Book Club, S2, Ep. 13 Hey Hal?
22 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Novocain for the soul, Infinite Jest Book Club, Season 2, Episode 12
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's Mario hour!
IJBC Season 2, episode 11 The Vapors
13 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Still clucking
IJBC S2, Ep. 10 The way we construct meaning from reality
15 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Yup. We're still doing this
IJBC S2, Ep 9 That man with the rubber fist is a homosexual?
05 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We get in the weeds a little bit as we discuss Infinite Jest from page 706
Ever felt like PT Krause, but looked like PT Krause?
07 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin and I are joined by Tim Eastwood to talk about dicks, mostly. But also, the big picture
IJBC S2, Ep 7 Different types of sight
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
'You just never quite occurred out there, kid.' Say less Can't
IJBC S2, Ep. 6 The Founder let you guys on the ground....
05 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Shit is getting deep
Season 2, Episode 5 Tragedy narrowly averted
08 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hal almost lost and Steeply's Dad likes M*A*S*H
SHOT IN SOBRIETY
11 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Orin's afterglow includes a wheelchair and a bald spot, Gately recognizes JvD as Madame Psychosis, and the student engineer learns to ski....
S2, Ep 3, So it goes
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An APP version of the IJBC.
Infinite Jest Book Club S2, Ep 2
21 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As we continue our reread of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, we discuss Lenz and Green, Avril and JW, Arslanian, and more!!
Diddle check?
19 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We continue on with a shorter episode. Thanks for joining and/or sticking with us. 'Out, Out ___' https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/5308...
...taken ill shortly after coming home from work...
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We discuss Infinite Jest, specifically the Antitois', 60's/80's Bob, weed, Canadians, drugs, and not drugs. And mattresses and puke.
'...silent and dim and the same temperature he is.'
24 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Another show, the penultimate of Season 1. Thank you everyone. I'm going to try to utilize this space more. And write my thoughts less. 'The ...
Not quite strictly sober
06 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We're back. We're talking. I'm not sure that we've figured out, but we keep trying to make heads, tails, and sides of Infinite Jest, a...
Reinventing government and history
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Another episode of a conversation discussing Infinite Jest. Thanks for your questions and comments!
You can't get drunk, and you can't get sober
19 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Boston AA is unlike AA anywhere else? Our re-read of Infinite Jest continues. Thanks for your continued support
Quick question, Mike- Is the map the territory?
18 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Eschaton, Marathe and Steepley and way more!
Word is Wayne has exactly one gear
28 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ever wanted to spend an hour and a half discussing an end note? No, me either. We did it anyway.
'Separatism and Return'
08 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we talk a lot about Orin, balls, family, and more!
Cattle ranching east of Atlantic City
23 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After a brief layoff we are back at it. We talk some Ennet House, some drugs, some recovery, and some nonsense
Not an episode
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Just a check in to let you know we didn’t quit! 4/20, bicycle day, etc
Your angle of incidence to the sun
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are now at a point in the book beyond where most books stop being books. Today we talk a little bit about the Brothers Incandenza, wheelchair surve...
All good parties have a line for the bathroom
20 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We discuss Infinite Jest today, spending some time with Joelle and the locker room boys, among others.
When does routine become ritual?
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We move fearlessly on discussing Infinite Jest. Thanks for listening!
Who's there?
17 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We kinda went off the board with this one, starting with a quick recap of our reading from episode 5, specifically w/r/t the 1960 garage scene. After ...
Potential may be worse than none, Jim.
10 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Keep coming back, don't quit before the miracle happens, etc
Stop her! She stole my heart!
19 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On we forge
Hatred of the work is just part of the work
21 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this meeting we focus on Marathe and Steeply in the desert and the ETA boys engaged in locker room highjinx. Thanks for the feedback, and for liste...
To sleep, perchance to dream?
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is the third meeting of our book club group's discussion of Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace. In this episode we tackle things from Gately ...
Are they addicted to the process, the secrecy, or the drug?
17 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Thank you one, both, or all for tuning in. This audio is pulled from a Zoom call, and I hope that the quality is acceptable at best. As we learn more ...
Infinite Jest Book Club (Trailer)
16 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas