If you’re one of those people who can’t stop obsessing about David Foster Wallace’s confounding, dense novel Infinite Jest — and quite right, too — then there’s a brand new resource. William Beutler has created Infinite Atlas, an interactive guide to the version of Boston in Wallace’s book, enabled by Google Maps and including brief write-ups of the main locations in the book.
And, from the same creator, there’s the Infinite Map, a limited-edition print which covers Wallace’s altered version of North America. Features of the Map include:
250 locations with color-coded map location dot and corresponding footnotes
4 telescoping inset maps: “Territorially Recognfigured North America”; “New New England and Noveau Quebec”; “Greater Boston”; and “Metro Boston”.
4 location designations: “Real”; “Fictional”; “Fictionalized”; “Approximate.
Red shading represents the Great Concavity
Great Seal of O.N.A.N. in upper right corner
Relief shading, major bodies of water and rivers, highways, state capitols, urban areas and national parks
“Easter egg” map labels drawn from the novel’s text
You can also buy just the Great Seal of O.N.A.N. separately, also as a limited edition print.
