David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) was an American author of novels, essays, and short stories, and a professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California.
The Broom of the System (1987). ISBN 9781101153536Infinite Jest (1996). ISBN 9780316920049The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel (2011). ISBN 9780316175296Girl with Curious Hair (1989). ISBN 9780393313963 (published in Europe as Westward the Course of the Empire Takes Its Way)Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (1999). ISBN 9780316086899Oblivion: Stories (2004). ISBN 97807595115691984: "The Planet Trillaphon As It Stands In Relation to The Bad Thing", Amherst Review2009: republished in Tin House1985: "Mr. Costigan in May", Clarion1987: included in BOTS1987: "Lyndon", Arrival1989: included in Girl with Curious Hair1987: "Here and There", Fiction1989: included in Girl with Curious Hair1987: "Other Math", Western Humanities Review1987: "Say Never", Florida Review1989: included in Girl with Curious Hair1987: "Solomon Silverfish", Sonora Review1988: "John Billy", Conjunctions1989: included in Girl with Curious Hair1988: "Late Night", Playboy1989: included in Girl with Curious Hair as "My Appearance"1988: "Everything is Green", Puerto del Sol1989: reprinted in Harper's1989: included in Girl with Curious Hair1988: "Little Expressionless Animals", Paris Review1989: included in Girl with Curious Hair1989: "Crash of 69", Between C&D1989: "Luckily the Account Representative Knew CPR" in Girl with Curious Hair1989: "Girl with Curious Hair" in Girl with Curious Hair1989: "Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way" in Girl with Curious Hair1991: "Church Not Made With Hands", Rampike1999: included in BIHM1991: "Forever Overhead", Fiction International1999: reprinted in BIHM1991: "Order and Flux in Northampton", Conjunctions1992: "Rabbit Resurrected", Harper's1993: "The Awakening of My Interest in Annular Systems", Harper’sExcerpt from Infinite Jest1994 "Several Birds", The New YorkerExcerpt from Infinite Jest1995 "An Interval", The New YorkerExcerpt from Infinite Jest1997: "Death Is Not The End", Grand Street1999: reprinted (extended) in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men1998: "A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life", Ploughshares, Spring 19981999: reprinted (slightly extended) in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men1998: "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men", Harper's1999: reprinted (extended, but with interview 16 omitted) in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men1999: "Asset", The New YorkerReprinted in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men2002: "Peoria (4)", TriQuarterly #112Excerpt from The Pale King2002: "Peoria (9)", TriQuarterly #112Excerpt from The Pale King2007: "Good People", The New YorkerExcerpt from The Pale King2008: "The Compliance Branch", Harper’sExcerpt from The Pale King2009 "Wiggle Room", The New YorkerExcerpt from The Pale King2009 "All That", The New Yorker2010 "A New Examiner," Harper’sExcerpt from The Pale King2011 "Backbone", The New YorkerExcerpt from The Pale King2013 "The Awakening of My Interest in Advanced Tax", Madra PressExcerpt from The Pale KingDates for entries in collections are the dates printed after the piece in the collection; the other dates are publication dates. Earliest dates are listed first; when they're the same the version in a collection is listed first, with the exception of Up, Simba! since the collected version references its magazine appearance and so was written afterward.
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (1997). ISBN 9780316090520Consider the Lobster (2005). ISBN 9780349119519Both Flesh and Not (2012). ISBN 9780316214698 [posthumous]String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis (2016). ISBN 1598534807 [posthumous, Library of America Special Edition]2003: Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity.2010: Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will. Columbia University Press, 2010 [reprint]. ISBN 978-0231151573. This text is an anthology presenting, in full, Wallace's undergraduate honors thesis in Philosophy at Amherst, "Richard Taylor's 'Fatalism' and the Semantics of Physical Modality." Additional material in the volume includes James Ryerson's introductory essay: "A Head That Throbbed Heartlike: The Philosophical Mind of David Foster Wallace"; philosopher Jay Garfield's epilogue; and philosophical essays regarding Taylor's fatalist argument.1985: "Richard Taylor's 'Fatalism' and the Semantics of Physical Modality" (thesis)2010: Reprinted in Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will (see above).1987: "Matters of Sense and Opacity", New York Times letter1988: "Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young" in The Review of Contemporary Fiction2012: Reprinted in Both Flesh and Not1990: Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present (with Mark Costello)1990: "The Horror of Pretentiousness: 'The Great and Secret Show' by Clive Barker ", in The Washington Post1990: "Michael Martone's Fort Wayne is Seventh on Hitler's List", in Harvard Book Review1990: "The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress" in The Review of Contemporary Fiction2012: Reprinted in Both Flesh and Not1991: "Exploring Inner Space: War Fever by J.G. Ballard", in The Washington Post1991: "The Million-Dollar Tattoo: Laura's Skin by F.J. Fiederspiel", in New York Times Book Review1991: "Tragic Cuban Emigre and a Tale of 'The Door to Happiness':The Doorman by Reinaldo Arenas", in The Philadelphia Inquirer Book Review1991: "Presley as Paradigm: Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of Cultural Obsession by Greil Marcus", Los Angeles Times1992: "Kathy Acker’s Portrait of an Eye: Three Novels", in Harvard Review1992: "Iris' Story: An Inversion of Philosophic Skepticism: The Blindfold by Siri Hustvedt", in The Philadelphia Inquirer1992: reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism (vol. 76)1992: "Tracy Austin's 'Beyond Center Court: My Story'", The Philadelphia Inquirer2005: reprinted in Consider the Lobster as "How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart"1990: "Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley", ASFTINDA1992: published (abbreviated) as "Tennis, Trigonometry, Tornadoes: A Midwestern Boyhood" in Harper's1990: "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction", ASFTINDA1993: published (lightly edited and sans footnotes) in Review of Contemporary Fiction1993: "Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All", ASFTINDA1994: published as "Ticket to the Fair" in Harper's1992: "Greatly Exaggerated", ASFTINDA1992: published as "Morte d'Author: An Autopsy" in the Harvard Book Review1996: "God Bless You, Mr. Franzen", Harper's letter (September 1996)1994: "Mr. Cogito" in Spin2012: Reprinted in Both Flesh and Not1996: "Democracy and Commerce at the US Open" in Tennis (included with NYTM)2012: Reprinted in Both Flesh and Not1996: "Impediments to Passion" in Might Magazine1998: reprinted as "Hail The Returning Dragon, Clothed In New Fire" in Shiny Adidas Tracksuits and the Death of Camp and Other Essays from Might Magazine2012: Reprinted in Both Flesh and Not as "Back in New Fire"1996: "Quo Vadis – Introduction", Review of Contemporary Fiction1995: "David Lynch Keeps His Head", ASFTINDA1996: published (severely abbreviated) in Premiere1995: "Tennis Player Michael Joyce's Professional Artistry as a Paradigm of Certain Stuff about Choice, Freedom, Discipline, Joy, Grotesquerie, and Human Completeness", ASFTINDA1996: published as "The String Theory" in Esquire1995: "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", ASFTINDA1996: published as "Shipping Out: On the (nearly lethal) comforts of a luxury cruise" in Harper's1996: "Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky", CTL1996: published as "Feodor's Guide" in Voice Literary Supplement (book review)1997: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again1997: "Twilight of the Great Literary Beasts: John Updike, Champion Literary Phallocrat, Drops One; Is This Finally the End for the Magnificent Narcissist?", New York Observer book review1998: reprinted (edited) in CTL as "Certainly the End of Something or Other, One Would Sort of Have to Think: (Re John Updike's Towards the End of Time)"1998: "Big Red Son", CTL1998: published (abbreviated and bowdlerized) as "Neither Adult Nor Entertainment" in Premiere under the names Willem R. deGroot and Matt Rundlet1998: "The Nature of the Fun" in Fiction Writer1998: published in Why I Write: Thoughts on the Craft of Fiction (Will Blythe, ed.)2012: Reprinted in Both Flesh and Not1998: "F/X Porn" in Waterstone's Magazine2012: Reprinted in Both Flesh and Not as "The (As It Were) Seminal Importance of Terminator 2"1998: "Laughing with Kafka", Harper's1999: reprinted (with different footnotes) in CTL as "Some Remarks on Kafka's Funniness from Which Probably Not Enough Has Been Removed"1999: "Overlooked: Five Direly Underappreciated U.S. Novels >1960" in Salon2012: Reprinted in Both Flesh and Not1999: "100-word statement", Rolling Stone2000: "Rhetoric and the Math Melodrama" (heavily edited) in Science2000: response to letter in response2012: Reprinted in Both Flesh and Not2000: "The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys, and the Shrub", Rolling Stone2000: reprinted (greatly expanded and with a preface) as Up, Simba!: 7 Days on the Trail of an Anticandidate2005: reprinted (verbatim) in Consider the Lobster2008: reprinted (with a foreword by Jacob Weisberg) as McCain's Promise: Aboard the Straight Talk Express with John McCain and a Whole Bunch of Actual Reporters, Thinking About Hope1999: "Authority and American Usage (or, 'Politics and the English Language' is Redundant)" in CTL2001: published (revised and abbreviated) as "Tense Present: Democracy, English and the wars over usage"2001: "The Best of the Prose Poem" in Rain Taxi2012: Reprinted in Both Flesh and Not2001: "The View from Mrs. Thompson's", CTL2001: "9/11: The View From the Midwest" appeared in Rolling Stone, October 25, 2001 (also published online by Rolling Stone with the first title)2004: "Twenty-Four Word Notes" printed as "Word Note" (various) in Oxford American Writer's Thesauraus2012: Reprinted in Both Flesh and Not2004: "Borges on the Couch" in the New York Times Book ReviewSee also: author's reply2012: Reprinted in Both Flesh and Not2004: "Consider the Lobster", CTL2004: published (with slight edits and gruesome details removed) in Gourmet2005: "Kenyon Commencement Address"2006: reprinted (revised and edited) in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 20062008: reprinted (severely abridged) in Wall Street Journal as "David Foster Wallace on Life and Work"2009: reprinted as This Is Water2005: "Host", CTL2005: published (abbreviated and in color) in The Atlantic2006: "Federer as Religious Experience", NYTM: PLAY2012: Reprinted in Both Flesh and Not as "Federer Both Flesh and Not"2007: "Deciderization 2007 — a Special Report" published as introduction to The Best American Essays 20072012: Reprinted in Both Flesh and Not2007: "Just Asking", in The Atlantic2012: Reprinted in Both Flesh and Not2008: "It All Gets Quite Tricky", Harper'sA collection of excerpts.
The David Foster Wallace Reader (2014). ISBN 9780316182393Fiction International 19:2 (Aids Art, Photomontages from Germany and England) (1991), contributing authorGrand Street 42 (1992), contributorGrand Street 46 (1993), contributorThe Review of Contemporary Fiction: The Future of Fiction, A Forum Edited by David Foster Wallace (1996), editorOpen City Number Five : Change or Die (1997), contributing authorThe Best American Essays 2007 (2007), guest editorThe New Kings of Nonfiction (2007), contributing authorThe Mechanics' Institute Review, Issue 4 (September 2007)Becky Bradway, "Interview with David Foster Wallace." Creating Nonfiction. Ed. Becky Bradway and Doug Hesse. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2009, 770-73.Larry McCaffery, "An Interview with David Foster Wallace." Review of Contemporary Fiction 13.2 (Summer 1993), 127–150. (text at Dalkey Archive Press website)Laura Miller, "The Salon Interview: David Foster Wallace." Salon 9 (1996)."The Usage Wars." Radio interview with David Foster Wallace and Bryan A. Garner. The Connection (March 30, 2001). (full audio interview)Caleb Crain, "Approaching Infinity: David Foster Wallace talks about writing novels, riding the Green Line, and his new book on higher math." Boston Globe. October 26, 2003.Michael Goldfarb, "David Foster Wallace." radio interview for The Connection (June 25, 2004). (full audio interview)David Foster Wallace on BookwormCharlie Rose: An interview with David Foster Wallace March 27, 1997Zachary Chouteau, "Infinite Zest: Words with the Singular David Foster Wallace." Bookselling This WeekDave Eggers, "David Foster Wallace." The Believer. November 2003."Brief Interview with a Five Draft Man." Interview with Stacey Schmeidel for Amherst Magazine. Spring 1999.A radio interview with David Foster Wallace Aired on the Lewis Burke Frumkes Radio Show in the spring of 1999.2010: Lipsky, David. Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace. New York: Broadway, 2010.Wallace, David Foster. David Foster Wallace: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations. Melville House, 2012. ISBN 978-1612192062Bryan A. Garner and David Foster Wallace. Quack This Way: David Foster Wallace & Bryan A. Garner talk language and writing. RosePen Books, 2013. ISBN 978-0-991-11810-6.Bolger, Robert K. and Korb, Scott (eds). Gesturing Toward Reality: David Foster Wallace and Philosophy. Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. ISBN 978-1441162656Boswell, Marshall. Understanding David Foster Wallace. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003. ISBN 1-57003-517-2Boswell, Marshall and Burn, Stephen, eds. A Companion to David Foster Wallace Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 (American Literature Readings in the Twenty-First Century). ISBN 9781137078346Burn, Stephen. David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest: A Reader's Guide. New York, London: Continuum, 2003. ISBN 0-8264-1477-XCarlisle, Greg. Elegant Complexity: A Study of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. Austin, TX: Sideshow Media Group Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-9761465-3-7Carlisle, Greg. Nature's Nightmare: Analyzing David Foster Wallace's Oblivion. Sideshow Media Group Press, 2013.Cohen, Samuel, and Konstantinou, Lee (eds.). The Legacy of David Foster Wallace. University of Iowa Press, 2012. ISBN 9781609381042Dowling, William, and Bell, Robert. A Reader's Companion to Infinite Jest. Xlibris, 2004. ISBN 1-4134-8446-8Hayes-Brady, Clare. The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace: Language, Identity and Resistance. New York: Bloomsbury, 2016.Hering, David, ed. Consider David Foster Wallace: Critical Essays. Austin, TX: Sideshow Media Group Press, 2010.Hering, David. David Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form. New York: Bloomsbury, 2016.Kelly, Adam. "David Foster Wallace and the New Sincerity in American Fiction." Consider David Foster Wallace: Critical Essay. Ed. David Hering. Austin, TX: Sideshow Media Group Press, 2010. 131–46.Lipsky, David. Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace. New York: Broadway, 2010. ISBN 978-0307592439Max, D. T. Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace. New York: Viking, 2012.Miller, Adam S. The Gospel According to David Foster Wallace: Boredom and Addiction in an Age of Distraction (New Directions in Religion and Literature). New York: Bloomsbury, 2016.Thompson, Lucas Global Wallace (DFW Studies). New York: Bloomsbury, 2017.Wallace, David Foster. David Foster Wallace: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations. Melville House, 2012. ISBN 978-1612192062Academic articles and book chapters
Benzon, Kiki. "Darkness Legible, Unquiet Lines: Mood Disorders in the Fiction of David Foster Wallace." Creativity, Madness and Civilization. Ed. Richard Pine. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007: 187–198.Bresnan, Mark. "The Work of Play in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 50:1 (2008), 51–68.Burn, Stephen. "Generational Succession and a Source for the Title of David Foster Wallace's The Broom of the System." Notes on Contemporary Literature 33.2 (2003), 9–11.Cioffi, Frank Louis. "An Anguish Becomes Thing: Narrative as Performance in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest." Narrative 8.2 (2000), 161–181.Delfino, Andrew Steven. "Becoming the New Man in Post-Postmodernist Fiction: Portrayals of Masculinities in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest and Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club. MA Thesis, Georgia State University.Ewijk, Petrus van. "'I' and the 'Other': The relevance of Wittgenstein, Buber and Levinas for an understanding of AA's Recovery Program in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest." English Text Construction 2.1 (2009), 132–45.Goerlandt, Iannis and Luc Herman. "David Foster Wallace." Post-war Literatures in English: A Lexicon of Contemporary Authors 56 (2004), 1–16; A1-2, B1-2.Goerlandt, Iannis. "Fußnoten und Performativität bei David Foster Wallace. Fallstudien." Am Rande bemerkt. Anmerkungspraktiken in literarischen Texten. Ed. Bernhard Metz & Sabine Zubarik. Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos, 2008: 387–408.Goerlandt, Iannis. "'Put the book down and slowly walk away': Irony and David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 47.3 (2006), 309–28.Goerlandt, Iannis. "'Still steaming as its many arms extended': Pain in David Foster Wallace's Incarnations of Burned Children." Sprachkunst 37.2 (2006), 297–308.Harris, Jan Ll. Addiction and the Societies of Control: David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, paper delivered at Figuring Addictions/Rethinking Consumption conference, Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University, April 4–5, 2002.Hering, David. "Theorising David Foster Wallace's Toxic Postmodern Spaces." US Studies Online 18 (2011)[1]Holland, Mary K. "'The Art's Heart's Purpose': Braving the Narcissistic Loop of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 47.3 (2006), 218–42.Jacobs, Timothy. "The Brothers Incandenza: Translating Ideology in Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov and David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest." Contemporary Literary Criticism Vol. 271. Ed. Jeffrey Hunter. New York: Gale, 2009. Also published in Texas Studies in Literature and Language 49.3 (2007), 265–92.Jacobs, Timothy. "American Touchstone: The Idea of Order in Gerard Manley Hopkins and David Foster Wallace." Comparative Literature Studies 38.3 (2001), 215–31.Kelly, Adam. "David Foster Wallace: the Death of the Author and the Birth of a Discipline." Irish Journal of American Studies Online 2 (2010).Kelly, Adam. "Development Through Dialogue: David Foster Wallace and the Novel of Ideas." Studies in the Novel 44.3 (2012): 265–81.Kelly, Adam. "Dialectic of Sincerity: Lionel Trilling and David Foster Wallace." Post45 Peer Reviewed (17 October 2014).LeClair, Tom. "The Prodigious Fiction of Richard Powers, William T. Vollmann, and David Foster Wallace." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 38.1 (1996), 12–37.Morris, David. "Lived Time and Absolute Knowing: Habit and Addiction from Infinite Jest to the Phenomenology of Spirit." Clio: A Journal of Literature, History and the Philosophy of History 30 (2001), 375–415.Nichols, Catherine. "Dialogizing Postmodern Carnival: David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest". Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 43.1 (2001), 3–16.Rother, James. "Reading and Riding the Post-Scientific Wave. The Shorter Fiction of David Foster Wallace". Review of Contemporary Fiction 13.2 (1993), 216–234. ISBN 1-56478-123-2Tysdal, Dan. "Inarticulation and the Figure of Enjoyment: Raymond Carver's Minimalism Meets David Foster Wallace's 'A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life'". Wascana Review of Contemporary Poetry and Short Fiction 38.1 (2003), 66–83.Book reviews and online essays
Benzon, Kiki. "Mister Squishy, c'est moi: David Foster Wallace's Oblivion" electronic book review (2004).Esposito, Scott, et al. "Who Was David Foster Wallace? A Symposium on the Writing of David Foster Wallace". The Quarterly Conversation.Harris, Michael. "A Sometimes Funny Book Supposedly about Infinity: A Review of Everything and More". Notices of the AMS 51.6 (2004), 632–638.Jacobs, Tim. "The Fight: Considering David Foster Wallace Considering You". Rain Taxi Review of Books. Online Edition, Part Two. Winter 2009.Jacobs, Timothy. "David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest." The Explicator 58.3 (2000), 172–75.Jacobs, Timothy. "David Foster Wallace's The Broom of the System." Ed. Alan Hedblad. Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction. Detroit: Gale Research Press, 2001, 41–50.Kelly, Adam. "The Map and the Territory: Infinite Boston." The Millions (13 Aug 2013).Mason, Wyatt. "Don't like it? You don't have to play [review of Oblivion: Stories]". London Review of Books 26.22 (2004).