NYU? great place! Atul Gawande is my favourite New Yorker author. My two favourite articles by him are the one about what medicine should do when it can't save your life and the one about getting coached while giving surgery. I'm sure you read them both. As for DFW - I just came from a conference about writer biographers and D.T. Max was there talking about DFW. He wrote Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace. I had never read any of DFW, so I picked up Infinite Jest -- but I'm struggling. The first chapter was good, and I was able to get through the second part where someone is waiting for a girl to bring his dope order. Then I get lost. Should I slog through it or can I skip a chapter and get to a linear narrative again. Help! I've been tempted to #askhubski about this, but I'll start with you!