David Foster Wallace bibliography

David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) was an American author of novels, essays, and short stories. In addition to writing, Wallace was employed as a professor at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois, and Pomona College in Claremont, California.

Fiction

Novels

* ''The Broom of the System'' (1987).
* ''Infinite Jest'' (1996).
* ''The Pale King'' (2011, posthumous).
*

Short story collections

* '' Girl with Curious Hair'' (1989).
* ''Brief Interviews with Hideous Men'' (1999).
* '' Oblivion: Stories'' (2004).

Short fiction

* 1984: "The Planet Trillaphon As It Stands In Relation to The Bad Thing", ''Amherst Review''
** 2009: republished in ''Tin House''
* 1985: "Mr. Costigan in May", ''Clarion''
** 1987: included in ''BOTS''
* 1987: "Lyndon", ''Arrival''
** 1989: included in ''Girl with Curious Hair''
* 1987: "Here and There", ''Fiction''
** 1989: included in ''Girl with Curious Hair''
* 1987
"Other Math"
''Western Humanities Review''
* 1987: "Say Never", ''Florida Review''
** 1989: included in ''Girl with Curious Hair''
* 1987
"Solomon Silverfish"
''Sonora Review''
* 1988: "John Billy", ''Conjunctions''
** 1989: included in ''Girl with Curious Hair''
* 1988: "Late Night", ''Playboy''
** 1989: included in ''Girl with Curious Hair'' as "My Appearance"
* 1988: "Everything is Green", ''Puerto del Sol''
** 1989
reprinted
in ''Harper's''
** 1989: included in ''Girl with Curious Hair''
* 1988:
Little Expressionless Animals
, ''Paris Review''
** 1989: included in ''Girl with Curious Hair''
* 1989: "Crash of 69", ''Between C&D''
* 1989: "Luckily the Account Representative Knew CPR" in ''Girl with Curious Hair''
* 1989: "Girl with Curious Hair" in ''Girl with Curious Hair''
* 1989: "Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way" in ''Girl with Curious Hair''
* 1991: "Church Not Made With Hands", ''Rampike''
** 1999: included in ''BIHM''
* 1991: "Forever Overhead", ''Fiction International''
** 1999: reprinted in ''BIHM''
* 1991
"Order and Flux in Northampton"
''Conjunctions''
* 1992
"Rabbit Resurrected"
''Harper's''
*1993
"The Awakening of My Interest in Annular Systems"
''Harper's''
**Excerpt from ''Infinite Jest''
*199
"Several Birds"
''The New Yorker''
**Excerpt from ''Infinite Jest''
*199
"An Interval"
''The New Yorker''
**Excerpt from ''Infinite Jest''
* 1997
"Death Is Not The End"
''Grand Street''
** 1999: reprinted (extended) in ''Brief Interviews with Hideous Men''
* 1998
"A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life"
''Ploughshares'', Spring 1998
** 1999: reprinted (slightly extended) in ''Brief Interviews with Hideous Men''
* 1998
"Brief Interviews with Hideous Men"
''Harper's''
** 1999: reprinted (extended, but with interview 16 omitted) in ''Brief Interviews with Hideous Men''
* 1998
"The Depressed Person"
''Harper's''
*1999
"Asset"
''The New Yorker''
** Reprinted in ''Brief Interviews with Hideous Men''
*1999: "Another Example of the Porousness of Various Borders (VI): Projected but not Improbable Transcript of Author's Parents' Marriage's End, 1971.", ''McSweeney's, Issue No.3, Late Summer, Early Fall, 1999''
** Printed in its entirety on the spine of the issue
** Reprinted in ''Brief Interviews with Hideous Men''
*2002: "Peoria (4)", ''TriQuarterly'' #112
**Excerpt from ''The Pale King''
*2002: "Peoria (9)", ''TriQuarterly'' #112
**Excerpt from ''The Pale King''
* 2007
"Good People"
''The New Yorker''
**Excerpt from ''The Pale King''
*2008
"The Compliance Branch"
''Harper's''
**Excerpt from ''The Pale King''
*200
"Wiggle Room"
''The New Yorker''
**Excerpt from ''The Pale King''
*200
"All That"
''The New Yorker''
*2010 "A New Examiner," ''Harper's''
**Excerpt from ''The Pale King''
*201
"Backbone"
''The New Yorker''
**Excerpt from ''The Pale King''
*2013 "The Awakening of My Interest in Advanced Tax", Madra Press
**Excerpt from ''The Pale King''
*2022 "Something To Do With Paying Attention", Simon and Schuster
**Excerpt from ''The Pale King''

Nonfiction

Dates 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.

Collections

* ''A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again'' (1997).
* ''Consider the Lobster'' (2005).
* '' Both Flesh and Not'' (2012). osthumous* ''String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis'' (2016). osthumous, Library of America Special Edition

Other books

* 2003: '' Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity.''
* 2010: ''Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will.'' Columbia University Press, 2010 eprint . 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.
* (2014): ''The David Foster Wallace Reader.'' . osthumousA collection of excerpts.

Essays

* 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"
''The New York Times'' letter
* 1988: "Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young" in ''The Review of Contemporary Fiction''
** 2012: Reprinted in ''Both Flesh and Not''
* 1990: '' 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 Post''
* 1990: "Michael Martone's ''Fort Wayne is Seventh on Hitler's List''", in ''Harvard Book Review''
* 1990: "The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress" in ''The Review of Contemporary Fiction''
** 2012: Reprinted in ''Both Flesh and Not''
* 1991: "Exploring Inner Space: ''War Fever'' by J.G. Ballard", in ''The Washington Post''
* 1991: "The Million-Dollar Tattoo: ''Laura's Skin'' by F.J. Fiederspiel", in ''New York Times Book Review''
* 1991: "Tragic Cuban Emigre and a Tale of 'The Door to Happiness':''The Doorman'' by Reinaldo Arenas", in ''The Philadelphia Inquirer Book Review''
* 1991: "Presley as Paradigm: ''Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of Cultural Obsession'' by Greil Marcus", ''Los Angeles Times''
* 1992: "Kathy Acker's ''Portrait of an Eye: Three Novels''", in ''Harvard Review''
* 1992: "Iris' Story: An Inversion of Philosophic Skepticism: ''The Blindfold'' by Siri Hustvedt", in ''The Philadelphia Inquirer''
** 1992: reprinted in ''Contemporary Literary Criticism'' (vol. 76)
* 1992: "Tracy Austin's 'Beyond Center Court: My Story'", ''The Philadelphia Inquirer''
** 2005: reprinted in ''Consider the Lobster'' as "How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart"
* 1990: "Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley", ''ASFTINDA''
** 1992: published (abbreviated) a
"Tennis, Trigonometry, Tornadoes: A Midwestern Boyhood"
in ''Harper's''
* 1990: "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction", ''ASFTINDA''
** 1993: published (lightly edited and sans footnotes) in ''Review of Contemporary Fiction''
* 1993: "Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All", ''ASFTINDA''
** 1994: published a
"Ticket to the Fair"
in ''Harper's''
* 1992: "Greatly Exaggerated", ''ASFTINDA''
** 1992: published as "Morte d'Author: An Autopsy" in the ''Harvard Book Review''
* 1996: "God Bless You, Mr. Franzen", ''Harper's'' letter (September 1996)
* 1994: "Mr. Cogito" in ''Spin''
**2012: Reprinted in ''Both Flesh and Not''
* 1996: "Democracy and Commerce at the US Open" in ''Tennis'' (included with ''NYTM'')
**2012: Reprinted in ''Both Flesh and Not''
* 1996: "Impediments to Passion" in ''Might Magazine''
** 1998: reprinted as "Hail The Returning Dragon, Clothed In New Fire" in ''Shiny Adidas Tracksuits and the Death of Camp and Other Essays from Might Magazine''
** 2012: Reprinted in ''Both Flesh and Not'' as "Back in New Fire"
* 1996: "Quo Vadis – Introduction", ''Review of Contemporary Fiction''
* 1995: "David Lynch Keeps His Head", ''ASFTINDA''
** 1996: published (''severely'' abbreviated) in ''Premiere''
* 1995: "Tennis Player Michael Joyce's Professional Artistry as a Paradigm of Certain Stuff about Choice, Freedom, Discipline, Joy, Grotesquerie, and Human Completeness", ASFTINDA
** 1996: published a
"The String Theory"
in ''Esquire''
* 1995: "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", ASFTINDA
** 1996: published a
"Shipping Out: On the (nearly lethal) comforts of a luxury cruise"
in ''Harper's''
* 1996: "Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky", CTL
** 1996: published as "Feodor's Guide" in ''Voice Literary Supplement'' (book review)
* 1997: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
* 1997
"Twilight of the Great Literary Beasts: John Updike, Champion Literary Phallocrat, Drops One; Is This Finally the End for the Magnificent Narcissist?"
''The New York Observer'' book review
** 1998: 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", ''CTL''
** 1998: published (abbreviated and bowdlerized) as "Neither Adult Nor Entertainment" in ''Premiere'' under the names Willem R. deGroot and Matt Rundlet
* 1998: "The Nature of the Fun" in ''Fiction Writer''
** 1998: published in ''Why I Write: Thoughts on the Craft of Fiction'' (Will Blythe, ed.)
** 2012: Reprinted in ''Both Flesh and Not''
* 1998: "F/X Porn" in ''Waterstone's Magazine''
** 2012: Reprinted in ''Both Flesh and Not'' as "The (As It Were) Seminal Importance of ''Terminator 2''"
* 1998
"Laughing with Kafka"
''Harper's''
** 1999: reprinted (with different footnotes) in ''CTL'' as "Some Remarks on Kafka's Funniness from Which Probably Not Enough Has Been Removed"
* 1999

in ''Salon''
** 2012: Reprinted in ''Both Flesh and Not''
* 1999: "100-word statement", ''Rolling Stone''
* 2000: "Rhetoric and the Math Melodrama" (heavily edited) in ''Science''
*** 2000: response to letter in response
*** 2012: Reprinted in ''Both Flesh and Not''
* 2000
"The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys, and the Shrub"
''Rolling Stone''
** 2000: reprinted (greatly expanded and with a preface) as ''Up, Simba!: 7 Days on the Trail of an Anticandidate''
** 2005: reprinted (verbatim) in ''Consider the Lobster''
** 2008: 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 Hope''
* 1999: "Authority and American Usage (or, 'Politics and the English Language' is Redundant)" in ''CTL''
** 2001: published (revised and abbreviated) a
"Tense Present: Democracy, English and the wars over usage"
* 2001: "''The Best of the Prose Poem''" in ''Rain Taxi''
**2012: Reprinted in ''Both Flesh and Not''
* 2001: "The View from Mrs. Thompson's", ''CTL''
** 2001
"9/11: The View From the Midwest"
appeared in ''Rolling Stone'', October 25, 2001 (als
published online
by ''Rolling Stone'' with the first title)
* 2004: "Twenty-Four Word Notes" printed as "Word Note" (various) in ''Oxford American Writer's Thesauraus''
**2012: Reprinted in ''Both Flesh and Not''
* 2004: "Borges on the Couch" in the ''New York Times Book Review''
** See also

***2012: Reprinted in ''Both Flesh and Not''
* 2004: "Consider the Lobster", ''CTL''
** 2004
published
(with slight edits and gruesome details removed) in ''Gourmet''
* 2005: "Kenyon Commencement Address"
** 2006: reprinted (revised and edited) in ''The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006''
** 2008
reprinted
(severely abridged) in ''The Wall Street Journal'' as "David Foster Wallace on Life and Work"
** 2009: reprinted as ''This Is Water''
* 2005: "Host", ''CTL''
** 2005
published
(abbreviated and in color) in ''The Atlantic''
* 2006

''NYTM: PLAY''
** 2012: 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 2007''
**2012: Reprinted in ''Both Flesh and Not''
* 2007
"Just Asking"
!--https://www.webcitation.org/5bb1DsF60-->, in ''The Atlantic''
**2012: Reprinted in ''Both Flesh and Not''
* 2008: "It All Gets Quite Tricky", ''Harper's''

Contributions

* ''Fiction International 19:2 (Aids Art, Photomontages from Germany and England)'' (1991), contributing author
* '' Grand Street 42'' (1992), contributor
* ''Grand Street 46'' (1993), contributor
* ''The Review of Contemporary Fiction: The Future of Fiction, A Forum Edited by David Foster Wallace'' (1996), editor
* ''Open City Number Five : Change or Die'' (1997), contributing author
* ''The Best American Essays 2007'' (2007), guest editor
* ''The New Kings of Nonfiction'' (2007), contributing author
* '' The Mechanics' Institute Review'', Issue 4 (September 2007)

Interviews

* 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." ''The 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 Bookworm

Charlie Rose: An interview with David Foster Wallace
March 27, 1997
* Zachary Chouteau, "Infinite Zest: Words with the Singular David Foster Wallace." ''Bookselling This Week''
* Dave 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.
* Bryan A. Garner and David Foster Wallace. ''Quack This Way: David Foster Wallace & Bryan A. Garner talk language and writing''. RosePen Books, 2013. .

Works about David Foster Wallace

Books

* Bolger, Robert K. and Korb, Scott (eds). ''Gesturing Toward Reality: David Foster Wallace and Philosophy''. Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
* Boswell, Marshall. ''Understanding David Foster Wallace''. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003.
* Boswell, Marshall and Burn, Stephen, eds. ''A Companion to David Foster Wallace Studies''. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 (American Literature Readings in the Twenty-First Century).
* Burn, Stephen. ''David Foster Wallace's'' Infinite Jest'': A Reader's Guide''. New York, London: Continuum, 2003.
* Carlisle, Greg. ''Elegant Complexity: A Study of David Foster Wallace's ''Infinite Jest''.'' Austin, TX: Sideshow Media Group Press, 2007.
* Carlisle, 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.
* Dowling, William, and Bell, Robert. ''A Reader's Companion to Infinite Jest.'' Xlibris, 2004.
* Hayes-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.
* Jackson, Edward, Xavier Marcó del Pont, and Tony Venezia (eds.), David Foster Wallace Special Issue of ''Orbit: A Journal of American Literature,'' 22 March 2017.
* 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.
* Max, D. T. ''Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace''. New York: Viking, 2012.
* McGowan, Michael and Brick, Martin,
David Foster Wallace and Religion: Essays on Faith and Fiction
'. New York: Bloomsbury, 2019.
* 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.
* Severs, Jeffrey. ''David Foster Wallace's Balancing Books: Fictions of Value.'' New York: Columbia University Press, 2017.
* 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.

Academic 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.
* Giles, Paul. "Sentimental Posthumanism: David Foster Wallace." Twentieth Century Literature 53.3 (Fall 2007): 327-44.
* 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 (201

* 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.

''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

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