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.