Infinite Jest on Good Morning, Midnight: “she referred to her own program as 'Madame's Downer-Lit Hour' and read depressing book after depressing book—Good Morning, Midnight and Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Giovanni's Room and Under the Volcano, plus a truly ghastly Bret Ellis period during Lent—in a monotone, really slowly, night after night.”
How to Be a Heroine on Wide Sargasso Sea: “I’d got more ammunition against Jane from Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea, her intoxicating 1966 prequel to Jane Eyre.”