February 16, 2012

#LINFINITEJEST

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The Internet is abuzz about basketball sensation Jeremy Lin. Basketball fans love him so much, they’ve inserted his name into words, creating such wonderful phrases as “Linsanity” and “Linspiration.” They’ve sought out as much information as possible about this phenomenon, from the couch he slept on, to his college GPA (3.1 in this, the era of grade inflation? Really?) People are even obsessing over his pre-game ritual:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN0hnIp99e8

Most outlets have incorrectly identified the text Lin and Fields (<3 <3 LANDRY!) “read” as the Bible, but a well-placed source in the New York Knicks organization (definitely, defintely not Renaldo Balkman) recently informed us that this is not the case. Balkman, I mean, er, a source, has brought it to our attention that the book in question is actually David Foster Wallace’s modern masterpiece, Infinite Jest.

Or should we say, #LINFINITEJEST. Some more books that can be found on Jeremy’s shelf:

  • Because of Lin-Dixie by Kate Dicamillo
  • The Pale Ling by David Foster Wallace
  • The Lins of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
  • BLindness by Jose Saramago
  • Midnight’s ChildLin by Salman Rushide
  • Rabbit, Lin by John Updike
  • To The Linhouse by Virginia Woolf
  • The Heart is a Linly Hunter by Carson McCullers
  • Linsburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
  • Studs Linigan by James T. Farrell
  • The Fortress of SoLintude by Jonathan Lethem
  • The Crying of Lin 49 by Thomas Pynchon
  • 266Lin by Roberto Bolano
  • Lin II by Don DeLillo
  • The Age of Linnocence by Edith Wharton
  • The Amazing Adventures of KavaLin and Clay by Michael Chabon
  • Moby-Lin by Herman Melville
  • The Brief Wondrous Lin of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
  • Black Swan Lin by David Mitchell
  • Super Sad True Lin Story by Gary Shteyngart
  • Play It As It Lins by Joan Didion
  • As I Lin Dying by William Faulkner
  • DeLinverance by James Dickey
  • Portnoy’s CompLint by Philip Roth
  • The Maltese FalcLin by Dashiell Hammett
  • Lord Lin by Joseph Conrad
  • We The Lining by Ayn Rand
  • Stranger in a Strange Lin by Robert HeinLin
  • Linnn Lin Linn by Tao Lin
  • A Good Lin Is Hard To Find by FLinnery O’Connor
  • The Lins They Carried by Tim O’Brien
  • Gone With The Lin by Margaret Mitchell
  • The French Lintenants Woman by John Fowles
  • AbsaLin, AbsaLin! by William Faulkner

 
 
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