David Foster Wallace bibliography

David Foster Wallace giving a reading in San Francisco in 2006.

David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) was an American author of novels, essays, and short stories, and a professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California.

Fiction

Novels

• The Broom of the System (1987)
• Infinite Jest (1996)
• The Pale King (2011) (unfinished)

Short story collections

• Girl with Curious Hair (1989) (published in Europe as Westward the Course of the Empire Takes Its Way)
• Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (1999)
• Oblivion: Stories (2004)

Short fiction

• [x] 1984: "The Planet Trillaphon As It Stands In Relation to The Bad Thing, Amherst Review
  • 2009: republished in Tin House
• 1987: "Lyndon", Arrival
  • [x] 1989: reprinted in GWCH
• [x] 1987: "Other Math", Western Humanities Review [1]
• 1987: "Solomon Silverfish", Sonora Review
• 1987: "Here and There", Fiction
  • 1989: reprinted in GWCH
•  ????: "Little Expressionless Animals", Paris Review
  • 1989: reprinted in GWCH
• 1989: "Crash of 69", Between C&D
•  ????: "John Billy", Conjunctions
  • 1989: reprinted in GWCH
•  ????: "Late Night", Playboy
  • [x] 1989: reprinted in GWCH as "My Appearance"
•  ????: "Say Never", Florida Review
  • 1989: reprinted in GWCH
•  ????: "Everything is Green", Puerto del Sol
  • 1989: reprinted in Harper's
  • 1989: reprinted in GWCH
• 1989: "Luckily the Account Representative Knew CPR" in GWCH
• 1989: "Girl with Curious Hair" in GWCH
• 1989: "Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way" in GWCH
• 1991: "Forever Overhead", Fiction International
  • [x] 1999: reprinted in BIHM
• [x] 1991: "Order and Flux in Northampton", Conjunctions
• 1992: "Rabbit Resurrected", Harper's (scan)
• 1997: "Death Is Not The End", Grand Street
  • [x] 1999: reprinted (extended) in BIHM
• [x] 1998: "A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life", Plougshares
  • [x] 1999: reprinted (slightly extended) in BIHM
• 1998: "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men", Harper's (PDF)
  • 1999: reprinted (extended, but with BI #16 omitted) in BIHM
• 2007: "Good People", New Yorker
  • excerpt from TPK

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.

• 1985: "Richard Taylor's 'Fatalism' and the Semantics of Physical Modality", Amherst Philosophy Thesis
• [x] 1987: "Matters of Sense and Opacity", NYT letter (OCR PDF)
• 1988: "Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young", Review of Contemporary Fiction (retypeset PDF)
• [x] 1990: Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present (with Mark Costello)
• [x] 1990: "The Horror of Pretentiousness", Washington Post book review (retypeset PDF)
• [x] 1990: "Fort Wayne is Seventh on Hitler's List", Harvard Book Review (PDF)
• [x] 1990: "The Empty Plenum", Review of Contemporary Fiction book review (retypeset PDF)
• [x] 1991: "Exploring Inner Space", Washington Post book review (retypeset PDF)
• [x] 1991: "The Million-Dollar Tattoo", NYT book review (retypeset PDF)
• [x] 1991: "Tragic Cuban Emigre and a Tale of 'The Door to Happiness'", Philadelphia Inquirer book review (retypeset PDF)
• [x] 1991: "Presley as Paradigm", LAT book review (retypeset PDF)
• [x] 1992: "Portrait of an Eye", Harvard Review book review (retypeset PDF)
• [x] 1992: "Iris' Story: An Inversion of Philosophic Skepticism", Philadelphia Inquirer book review (retypeset PDF)
  • 1992: reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism (vol. 76)
• 1992: "Tracy Austin's 'Beyond Center Court: My Story'", Philadelphia Inquirer book review
  • [x] 1994: reprinted in CTL as "How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart"
• [x] 1990: "Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley", ASFTINDA
  • 1992: printed (abbreviated) as "Tennis, Trigonometry, Tornadoes: A Midwestern Boyhood" in Harper's (PDF)
• [x] 1990: "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction", ASFTINDA
  • [x] 1993: printed (lightly edited and sans footnotes) in Review of Contemporary Fiction (PDF)
• [x] 1993: "Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All", ASFTINDA
  • 1994: printed as "Ticket to the Fair" in Harper's (PDF)
• [x] 1992: "Greatly Exaggerated", ASFTINDA
  • 1992: printed as "'Morte d'Author: An Autopsy" in the Harvard Book Review
• [x] 1996: "God Bless You, Mr. Franzen", Harper's letter (PDF)
• [x] 1996: "Democracy and Commerce at the US Open", Tennis (included with NYTM) (PDF)
• 1996: "Impediments to Passion", Might
  • [x] 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 (PDF)
• [x] 1996: "Quo Vadis - Introduction", Review of Contemporary Fiction (OCR PDF)
• [x] 1995: "David Lynch Keeps His Head", ASFTINDA
  • 1996: printed (severely abbreviated) in Premiere (HTML)
• [x] 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: printed as "The String Theory" in Esquire
• [x] 1995: "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", ASFTINDA
  • [x] 1996: printed as "Shipping Out: On the (nearly lethal) comforts of a luxury cruise" in Harper's ([2])
• [x] 1996: "Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky", CTL
  • 1996: printed as "Feodor's Guide" in Voice Literary Supplement (book review)
• [x] 1997: A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
• [x] 1997: "John Updike, Champion Literary Phallocrat, Drops One; Is This Finally the End for Magnificent Narcissists?", New York Observer book review
  • [x] 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)"
• [x] 1998: "Big Red Son", CTL
  • 1998: printed (abbreviated and bowdlerized) as "Neither Adult Nor Entertainment" in Premiere under the names Willem R. deGroot and Matt Rundlet
  • [x] see also: backstory from editor; AVN's response
• [x] 1998: "The Nature of the Fun", Why I Write: Thoughts on the Craft of Fiction (Will Blythe, ed.)
  • [x] 1998: reprinted (with headings) in Fiction Writer (HTML)
• [x] 1998: "F/X Porn", Waterstone's (PDF)
• [x] 1998: "Laughing with Kafka", Harper's (PDF)
  • [x] 1999: reprinted (with different footnotes) in CTL as "Some Remarks on Kafka's Funniness from Which Probably Not Enough Has Been Removed"
• [x] 1999: "Overlooked: Five Direly Underappreciated U.S. Novels >1960", Salon
• [x] 1999: "100-word statement", Rolling Stone (retypeset PDF)
• [x] 2000: "Rhetoric and the Math Melodrama", for Science book review (PDF)
  • [x] 2000: printed (heavily edited) in Science (B/W PDF)
    • [x] 2000: response to letter in response (PDF)
• 2000: "The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys, and the Shrub", Rolling Stone
  • [x] 2000: reprinted (greatly expanded and with a preface) as Up, Simba!: 7 Days on the Trail of an Anticandidate
    • 2000: reprinted (verbatim) in CTL
      • [x] 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
• [x] 1999: "Authority and American Usage^[1]" in CTL
  • [x] 2001: printed (revised and abbreviated) as "Tense Present: Democracy, English and the wars over usage", Harper's book review (PDF)
• [x] 2001: "The Best of the Prose Poem", Rain Taxi book review (PDF)
• [x] 2001: "The View from Mrs. Thompson's", CTL
  • 2001: printed (edited) in Rolling Stone
• [x] 2003: Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity
• [x] 2004: "Borges on the Couch", NYT book review (PDF)
  • [x] see also: author's reply
• [xs] 2004: "Word Note" (various), Oxford American Writer's Thesauraus (PDF selection)
• [x] 2004: "Consider the Lobster", CTL
  • [x] 2004: printed (with slight edits and gruesome details removed) in Gourmet (PDF)
• [x] 2005: "Kenyon Commencement Address"
  • [x] 2006: reprinted (revised and edited) in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006
    • [x] 2008: reprinted (severely abridged) in Wall Street Journal as "David Foster Wallace on Life and Work"
  • [x] 2009: reprinted as This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
• 2005: Consider the Lobster
• [x] 2005: "Host", CTL
  • [x] 2005: printed (abbreviated and in color) in The Atlantic
• [x] 2006: "Federer as Religious Experience", NYTM: PLAY (B/W PDF)
• [x] 2007: "Deciderization 2007 — a Special Report", introduction to The Best American Essays 2007 (reprint PDF)
• [x] 2007: "Just Asking", The Atlantic
• [x] 2006-2008: "It All Gets Quite Tricky", Harper's printing private correspondence
• [x] 2008: McCain's Promise: Aboard the Straight Talk Express with John McCain and a Whole Bunch of Actual Reporters, Thinking About Hope (paperback reprint of Up, Simba!)
• [x] 2009: This Is Water
• [x] 2010: Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will, Eds. S. Cahn and M. Eckert, Columbia University Press. 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.
• 2010: Lipsky, David. Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace. New York: Broadway, 2010.

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).^[2]
• "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.^[3]
• 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." Complete interview done for Bookselling This Week, a publication of the American Bookseller's Association.^[4]
• Dave Eggers, "David Foster Wallace." The Believer. November 2003.^[5]
• "Brief Interview with a Five Draft Man." Interview with Stacey Schmeidel for Amherst Magazine. Spring 1999.^[6]
• A radio interview with David Foster Wallace Aired on the Lewis Burke Frumkes Radio Show in the spring of 1999.

Footnotes

1. ^ (or, "POLITICS AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE" IS REDUNDANT)
2. ^ "SALON Features: David Foster Wallace". http://archive.salon.com/09/features/wallace1.html. 
3. ^ Crain, Caleb (October 26, 2003). "Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Ideas / Approaching infinity". The Boston Globe. http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2003/10/26/approaching_infinity/. 
4. ^ "www.ptwi.com". http://www.ptwi.com/~bobkat/aba.html. 
5. ^ "The Believer—Interview with David Foster Wallace". http://www.believermag.com/issues/200311/?read=interview_wallace. 
6. ^ "Brief Interview with a Five Draft Man , Amherst College". Amherst.edu. https://www.amherst.edu/aboutamherst/magazine/extra/node/66410. Retrieved February 26, 2011. 

External links

The Know(e): dfw, a complete bibliography.