Tequila Mockingbird: Cocktails with a Literary Twist by Tim Federle

Author:Tim Federle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-11-20T21:07:23+00:00

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I N F I N I T E Z E S T

INFINITE JEST (1996)

BY DAVID FOSTER WALLACE

Ten Commandments—size cast populates this rule-breaking mod-A ern classic, infamous for sprawling prose, endless footnotes,1

and a madcap depiction of the future.2 Confounding and delightful in equal measure, Jest takes place in the ’burbs of Boston,3 between a halfway house and a nearby tennis academy. Wallace had one of his central characters take his own life, and in a tragic true-life twist, Wallace did the same, leaving behind a magnum opus that will be argued and digested for infinity. Serve up a tennis-ball-yellow cocktail that mimics the zest and bounce of one fallen literary legend.

2 ounces vodka

1 ounce limoncello

1/2 ounce lemon juice

Minding that tennis elbow, shake the ingredients with ice and

strain into a cocktail glass. Head back to the court, sport, and never give up on your game.

1 Just like this, but they appeared at the end of the book—over four hundred of ’em!

2 Time is marked with corporate sponsorships, as in Year of the Perdue Wonderchicken.

3 Wallace briefly studied philosophy at Harvard (who hasn’t?) and later taught at Emerson.

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