Infinite Jest Boston 30th Anniversary Read-In

​Come one come all to celebrate Boston's Post-Modernist Masterpiece.

​To mark the 30th anniversary of Infinite Jest, readers are invited to a communal read-in at the Boston Public Library celebrating the novel as a defining work of Boston literature. Participants will read aloud selected passages in which David Foster Wallace maps the city’s streets, institutions, weather, and psychic pressures — from Allston and Brighton to recovery houses, tennis courts, and the strange bureaucratic afterlife of Greater Boston.

​The event is informal and participatory: attendees may listen, read, or simply sit with the text. Together, the read-in treats Infinite Jest not as a private endurance test but as a shared civic artifact — a novel that captures Boston’s ambition, anxiety, humor, and loneliness at the turn of the millennium.

​Bring Your Own Books.
Please note there is no food or drink allowed in the study rooms.

​In person only.

​Attendance will be capped at 20.

​Free, please donate to our houseless neighbors who will inevitably be outside the library before or after the event.