Why Finish?

if in fact it's infinite, wouldn't any point be as good as any other? making "the end" fairly arbitrary?

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/mar/13/why-finish-books/

two new dfw things (one very very tangently related to War & Peace)

Decemberists do DFW

and

Jonathan Franzen on Robinson Crusoe and DFW's death don't know if this link will work, but it's worth tracking down

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/23/arts/music/michael-schur-directs-decemberists-video.html?_r=1&src=ISMR_HP_LO_MST_FB

War and Peace things

New York Review of Books review of the translation we're reading.

here

the map of Napoleon's invasion of Russia

here

The Pale King

Caroline has received her copy in the mail. Available for pre-order (and I guess now-shipping) at Amazon.

DFW,4EVA

http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2011/03/07/110307fi_fiction_wallace

DFW in the NYR of B

a review of the recent DFW book to get us excited about the new book.

and

We gonna continue reading? Perhaps in the fall? Mann? Pynchon?

OR

Perhaps we can change our focus to epics of different sorts?