PhD students and lecturers at the Centre for Contemporary Literature have been running the Infinite Reading Group. Thus far the group has been entirely dedicated to the fiction of David Foster Wallace, but its organizers do intend eventually to work on lengthy and demanding texts by other contemporary authors.
In 2015, the group will be focusing on Wallace's unfinished, posthumously-published novel The Pale King (2011). The first meeting is on Wednesday 11th March from 6-8pm in room 112, at Birkbeck School of Arts, 43 Gordon Square. The group will start with sections 1-9. The group has adapted the Pale Summer timetable for eight monthly meetings. Full schedule below:
1. Sections 1-9
2. Sections 10-21
3. Section 22
4. Sections 23-26
5. Sections 27-34
6. Sections 35-45
7. Sections 46-47
8. Sections 48-50 plus the four previously unpublished scenes (pp. 551-573, paperback)
The group's organizers have previously held the successful conference at Birkbeck: Supposedly Fun Things: A Colloquium on the Writing of David Foster Wallace.
Featured image by N D Strupler under a CC BY license.
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