Spring reading and a spring redesign

I read Requiem for a Dream last week, three years after picking it up. As a friend described it, reading it was like being punched in the face. But as compelling as it was, it didn't add a lot to the experience of seeing the movie it inspired, in contrast to, say, Trainspotting.

Next up is my third attempt at a cover-to-cover read of David Foster Wallace's mammoth and heavily-annotated Infinite Jest, coincidentally another novel about addiction. I'm hoping to finish it in time for the June release of Wallace's Oblivion, the cover of which inspired the recent redesign here. The release of Wallace's previous collection of short fiction, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, occasioned the second post here almost five years ago.