What's it like reading Infinite Just on its 20th anniversary?

David Foster Wallace's editor, Michael Peach and his friend Tom Bissell, who wrote the

forward to the new edition, will join us to talk about Wallace and his work.

Infinite Just is a very, very funny novel about people in great pain.

And through their lives, it shows people working through the many, many forces that can make life hard.

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The impulse is less about leaving behind a crept society, which I think is sort of the driving force.

The commons in the 20th century and more about actually changing the whole world.

It was a very sort of active and global type of movement.

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Michael Peach, the CEO of Hischette Book Group, joins us now to talk about David Foster Wallace.

Hi, Michael. Hi. Thanks for being here.

I'm thrilled.

So it is the 20th anniversary of Infinite Just and you have published a new 20th anniversary edition with a forward by Tom Bissell.

I mean, how did you decide, okay, now is the time to reissue this at 20?

As these big landmarks come along and a book is rising in importance and popularity and how much a part of people's lives it is.

It's kind of the publisher's responsibility to acknowledge that and to see the conversation and stimulate it.

So we thought a new edition, a new cover art, a new person to bring readers into it.

And just a way to get the conversation out there again is something we're thrilled to be able to do.

And you were David Foster Wallace's editor?

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