New Book on Religion and Literature

The Gospel According to David Foster Wallace: 
Boredom and Addiction in an Age of Distraction 

by kind permission of the publisher

 

The publication of a new book on religion and literature, focusing on a contemporary writer, once again attests to the relevance of this field of study. In The Gospel According to David Foster Wallace: Boredom and Addiction in an Age of Distraction, Adam S. Miller selects key scenes from David Foster Wallace’s novels Infinite Jest and The Pale King, and gives insightful interpretations of their religious implications within the context of twenty-first-century American culture.

According to the publisher, “Wallace suggests that the practice of prayer (regardless of belief in God), the patient application of attention to things that seem ordinary and boring, and the internalization of clichés may be the antidote to much of what ails us in the 21st century.”