id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5679 Infinite Jest - Wikipedia .html text/html 6596 770 71 His efforts in 1991–92 were more productive.[5] From early 1992 until the novel's publication, excerpts from various drafts appeared sporadically in magazines and literary journals including Harvard Review,[6] Grand Street,[7] Conjunctions,[8] Review of Contemporary Fiction,[9] Harper's Magazine,[10] The Iowa Review,[11][12] The New Yorker[13][14] and the Los Angeles Times Magazine.[15] The book was edited by publisher Little, Brown and Company's Michael Pietsch, who has recalled cutting about 250 manuscript pages.[16] Early reviews contributed to Infinite Jest's hype, many of them describing it as a momentous literary event.[39] In the Review of Contemporary Fiction, Steven Moore called the book "a profound study of the postmodern condition."[40] In 2004, Chad Harbach declared that, in retrospect, Infinite Jest "now looks like the central American novel of the past thirty years, a dense star for lesser work to orbit."[41] In a 2008 retrospective by The New York Times, it was described as "a masterpiece that's also a monster—nearly 1,100 pages of mind-blowing inventiveness and disarming sweetness. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5679.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5679.txt