if you are a DFW fan, this is gem. I recall reading IJ in 1997--absolutely like nothing i had ever read, and not just because it was a novel with footnotes and

if you are a DFW fan, this is gem. I recall reading IJ in 1997--absolutely like nothing i had ever read, and not just because it was a novel with footnotes and some of those footnotes had footnotes. Extraordinary work of art. Realizing that no more is to come from DFW is deeply sad.