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abjection, 88 “Deciderization 2007 – A Special addiction, 24, 41, 89, 97, 104, 128–129, 133, Report,” 118 136, 137, 165–168. See also Alcoholics “Big Red Son” (story), 115 Anonymous (AA) Bloom, Harold, 57 advertising, 22, 161 Anxiety of Influence, The, 52 affect, 142 Bob Newhart Show, The (TV show), 21 agency/free will, 51, 147, 148, 153 book reviews, 113–114, 193 Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), 41, 45, 129, boredom, 10, 142, 184, 216 138, 165–168, 170, 197, 199, 200 Boswell, Marshall, 57, 85, 137, 142, Although Of Course You End Up Becoming 145, 192 Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Both Flesh and Not, xvii, 4, 111 Wallace (Lipsky), xvii, xviii “Deciderization 2007 – A Special Anderson, Sherwood, 237 Report,” 118 Winesburg, Ohio, 222, 225–226 “Democracy and Commerce at the U.S. “Another Pioneer” (story), 98, 104, 105–106, Open,” 117 149, 214 “Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously anticipation, 51 Young,” 28, 29, 73 Araya, Jorge, 143 Brat Pack fiction, 28–29, 73. See also Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, 197 “Fictional Futures and the attention, 3, 10, 143, 145–146 Conspicuously Young”; “Girl with Austin, Tracy, 117 Curious Hair” authenticity, 199 Brick, Martin, 192 authority, breakdown of, 182–183 Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, xvi, xvii, “Authority and American Usage” (essay), 4, 41, 44, 51, 82–93, 132, 210 177–178, 212 “B.I. #2,” 89 autofiction, 59 “B.I. #20,” 90–91, 114, 162–164 “B.I. #28,” 89, 93 Baby Boomers, 20 “Datum Centurio,” 90 Balibar, Étienne, 175–176 “Depressed Person, The,” xvi, 51, Barth, John, 2 77, 90 Lost in the Funhouse, 78, 88, 236 “Devil Is a Busy Man, The,” 40, 77 “Lost in the Funhouse” (story), 88 “Forever Overhead,” 9, 87, 93, 183 Sot-Weed Factor, The, 129 “Octet,” 51, 56, 77, 91–93, 108, 160, Barthelme, Donald, 2 164–165, 183 belief, 11, 191 “Pop Quiz 6(A),” 90 distinction from faith, 192–193 supernatural themes, 149 The Best American Essays 2007 (Wallace, “Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Ed.), xvii Certain Borders,” 86

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Broom of the System, The, xv, 9, 21, 24, 28, cynicism, 10, 20, 22, 23, 26–27, 121, 42, 44, 50, 67–72, 79, 100, 128 163–164, 169, 178, 182, 192, 226 communication in, 67–69, 70–72, 76, 79 David Foster Wallace and “The Long Thing”: regionalism of, 220 New Essays on the Novels (Boswell, supernatural in, 149 Marshall – Ed.), 142 Burn, Stephen J., 5, 142 David Foster Wallace Conference, 3 Decemberists, The (music), 49 Campbell, Joseph, 11, 206, “Deciderization 2007 – A Special Report” 214–217 (essay), 118, 222–223 Myths to Live By, 214 defamiliarization, 162 Carver, Raymond, 72 DeLillo, Don Cather, Willa, My Ántonia, 34 Libra, 129 Chamberlain, Lisa, Slackernomics, 20 White Noise, 42, 75 Chartier, Alain, “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” “Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley” (essay), (poem), 145 116–117, 220, 231 Chase, Richard, 37 Derrida, Jacques, 68, 84 choice, 10 Díaz, Junot, 2 Christianity, 11 Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Cioran, E.M., 9, 99, 107 The, 57 Tears and Saints, 97–98, 101, 103, Drown, 57 104, 105 This Is How You Lose Her, 58 Cixous, Hélène, 84–85, 90 disembodiment, 97, 100–102 “Laugh of the Medusa, The” (essay), Disney, Walt, 227 85 distraction, 199 Clare, Ralph, 142 Dos Passos, John, 237 Clarke, Bruce, 236 USA Trilogy, 240–241 Clarke, Jonathan Russell, 49 doubt, 121 Cohen, Samuel, 204 Doxiadis, Apostolos, Uncle Petros and After the End of History: American Fiction Goldbach’s Conjecture, 214 in the 1990s, 24 dreams, 86–88, 100–102 communication, 10, 12, 54, 67–69, 70–72, Dreyfus, Hubert, 191 74, 75, 76–78, 79 dualism, 147 community, 11, 45, 113, 134, 182, 183, 190, Dulk, Allard den, 137, 145 198–201 connection, 143 “E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. consciousness, 97–100, 106–109, 142 Fiction” (essay), xvi, 3, 19, 21, 28, 42, 73, Consider the Lobster, xvi, xvii, 3, 9, 111 75, 111, 117, 122, 160, 161 “Authority and American Usage,” 112, Eagleton, Terry, 190 120, 177–178, 212 economics, 7, 11, 20, 175–176 “Big Red Son,” 115 écriture feminine, 84 “Consider the Lobster,” 119, 121 Egan, Jennifer, 2 “Host,” 119, 121, 122, 179–180 Visit from the Goon Squad, A, 56, 59–60 service essays, 118 Eggers, Dave, 2 “Up, Simba: Seven Days on the Trail of an Ellis, Brett Easton, 73 Anticandidate,” xvi, 112, 119, 121, Less Than Zero, 28 178–179, 180 Ellwood, Robert, 215 “Consider the Lobster” (essay), 119, 121 embodiment, 146–147 conversion, 11 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Nature, 35–36 Coupland, Douglas, 20 empathy, 5, 11, 41, 165, 179, 190, 194, 198 creative writing, 28–30, 34, 72 encyclopedic narratives/novel, 8, 10, 43–44, criticism, literary, 4, 127, 136, 143, 146 129, 130, 136, 239–240 cybernetic thought, 236 End of History, 24 256

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End of the Tour, The (film), xviii, 49 Gaddis, William, 237 entertainment, 24, 30, 38–39 JR, 240 addiction to, 128 Recognitions, The, 129 disposable, 22 games, 29, 36, 68, 74–75, 89, 117–118, 134 distraction through, 199 Gass, William, Omensetter’s Luck, 73 “failed,” 136–138 gender themes, 9, 146–147 lethal, 181, 183 Generation X, 3, 8 passive, 128, 134, 136 defining, 20–21 solipsism and, 200 literary Brat Pack (Conspicuously Young), Equaliberty, 175 28–29 Ercolino, Stefano, 239–240 political ambivalence of, 25–27 ethnicity, 205, 211, 213, 215–216, 227 “Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Eugenides, Jeffrey, 2 Much Away from It All” (essay), 34, Marriage Plot, The, 56, 57 114–115, 120, 209, 214, 220 Every Love Story is a Ghost Story ghosts/haunting, 12–13, 148–151 (Max), 4, 26, 29, 58, 67, 116, 191, Giles, Paul, 35, 113, 221 193, 200 Girl with Curious Hair, xv, 9, 21, 67, Everything and More, xvii, 111, 144 72–79 Ex Machina (film), 134 “Everything Is Green,” 72 existentialism, 33–40, 42 “Girl with Curious Hair,” 97, 176 experimental literature, 59, 132, 160, 240 “Here and There,” xv, 77, 128 “Little Expressionless Animals,” 73, faith, 191, 192, 193–194, 197, 198. See also 74–75, 128 spirituality “Luckily the Account Representative Knew Family Ties (TV show), 20 CPR,” 77 Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free “Lyndon,” 76–77, 177 Will, xvii, 4 “My Appearance,” 73, 74, 75–76, 128 Federer, Roger, 117 “Say Never,” 73 feminism, 9, 82–93 supernatural in, 149 French feminism, 84–85, 86, 88, 90 “Westward the Course of Empire Makes Its “Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Way,” 69, 72, 74, 77–79, 143, Young” (essay), 28, 29, 73 161, 227 film Glossary, The, 49 Joke, The (James Incandenza), 134 “Good Old Neon” (story), xvi, 9, 12, Medusa v. the Odalisque, The (James 106–109, 133, 149, 160 Incandenza), 134 Green, Karen, xvi, xvii Pre-nuptial (James Incandenza), 129 Bough Down, 7 Fitzpatrick, Kathleen, 52 Groenland, Tim, 143 Foucault, Michel, 220 Gusterson, Hugh, 227 Frank, Joseph, 2, 193 Franzen, Jonathan, 49, 50, 54–55, hagiography, 105 116 Harper’s magazine Corrections, The, xvi, 222 “Shipping Out,” 111 Freedom, 55, 56–57 “Tennis, Trigonometry, Tornadoes,” Strong Motion, 23 116–117 Twenty-Seventh City, The, 23, 42 “Tense Present: Democracy, English, and free will/agency, 51, 147, 148, 153 the Wars over Usage,” 112 Freud, Sigmund, 86, 90 “Ticket to the Fair,” 111, 114–115. See also Totem and Taboo, 182 “Getting Away from Already Being Friends (TV show), 21 Pretty Much Away from It All” Fukuyama, Francis, End of History and the Harris, Charles B., 117, 221 Last Man, The, 24–25 Harry Ransom Center, xvii, 5, 6, 214, 221 “Future of Fiction, The” (essay), 23 haunting. See ghosts/haunting 257

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 39 Marathe, 176, 181 “Minister’s Black Veil, The” (story), 37 Mario Incandenza, 128, 200, 205 Scarlet Letter, The, 38 mystery in, 37–38 Hayes-Brady, Clare, 7, 51, 83, 85, 91, 204 Orin Incandenza, 132, 168, 183 Hayles, Katherine, 181, 199 political/social upheaval, 176 Heartland Myth, 11, 222, 224, 228–230 politics in, 180–184 Hemingway, Ernest, “Clean, Well-Lighted portrayals of race in, 204–205, 210–211, Place, A” (story), 34 212, 213, 215 Her (film), 134 realism in, 131–133 “Here and There” (story), xv, 77, 128 Remy Marathe, 128 Hering, David, 6, 9, 58 similarities with The Broom of the David Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form, System, 71 7, 149 Steeply, 176, 181–182 heroism, 145–146, 151–154 as through line, 10 history, 24, 26, 59, 76–77, 184, 221 writing style in, 43 Hoberek, Andrew, 57–58, 132 Infinite Summer, xvii, 4, 49 Holland, Mary, 88 Infinite Winter, 4, 49 “Host” (essay), 119, 121, 122, 179–180 intentional fallacy, 2 Howling Fantods (website), 4 International David Foster Wallace Society, 3 Hungerford, Amy, 50 Internet, 161 Postmodern Belief, 192 Irigaray, Luce, 84–85, 90 irony, 10, 77, 127, 182 ideology, 177 at AA meetings, 165–166, 167 images, 40, 45, 76, 118, 127, 134, 144, 161, pervasiveness of, 128 178, 180, 182, 220, 222, 228 of pop-culture obsession, 22–23 “Incarcerations of Burned Children” (story), postmodern, 39, 143, 161 101–102, 103, 104 in television, 74 Inception (film), 134 Infinite Jest, 3, 6, 36, 44, 45, 67, 97, 100, 104, Jackson, Shelley, Patchwork Girl, 135 127–138, 161 Jacobs, Timothy, 132 addiction and addicts, 41, 128–129, 133, James, William, 4, 192 136, 137, 165–168 Jamison, Leslie, 3 Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), 10, 41, 45, Johnson, Victoria E., Heartland TV, 222 165–168, 170, 197, 199 Journal of David Foster Wallace Studies, The, 4 ambiguity in, 38–39 journalism, 52, 59, 102, 111–122, 204, 206, Barry Loach, 168, 199–200 207, 214 community in, 199–200 book reviews and aesthetic analysis, 114 connections and recursions in, 128–130 consumer spectacle essays, 114–118 Don Gately, 129, 136–137, 166, 167, 168, ethical/political essays, 118–121 195–196, 199 service essays, 112, 118 Eschaton chapter, 49 sports essays, 117–118 “failed entertainment” dilemma, 136–138 Joyce, Michael, 117 Geoffrey Day, 197 “Just Asking” (essay), 121, 210 ghosts/haunting in, 12, 149 grotesque themes in, 41 Kafka, Franz, 87 Hal Incandenza, 129, 136–137, Karr, Mary, 52–53 182–183, 199 “Suicide Note” (poem), 56 as historical novel, 133–136 Keats, John, 143 Infinite Jest (film), 135 “La Belle Dame sans Merci” (poem), 143, James Incandenza, 130, 134, 170, 205 144–146, 147, 149–154 Johnny Gentle, 25, 134, 205 Kelly, Adam, 51, 240 Ken Erdedy, 129 Kelly, Sean Dorrance, 191 Lyle, 128 Klosterman, Chuck, 3 258

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Kolodny, Annette, 83 McInerney, Jay, Bright Lights, Big City, Konstantinou, Lee, 8, 39, 144 28 Cool Characters: Irony and American media, real media as fiction. See also “Little Fiction, 24 Expressionless Animals” (story); Kristeva, Julia, 84–85, 86, 88 “My Appearance” (story) Kunkel, Benjamin, 58, 59 mediation, 59, 134, 161–162 meditation, 190 language, 11, 12, 51, 68–72, 84–85, 87–93, Melville, Herman, 39 119, 127, 130, 163–164, 169–170, Moby Dick, 35, 36, 42, 44, 45, 116 177–178, 191, 195, 215, 237 memoirs, as genre, 238 Lethem, Jonathan, 2 metafiction, 78–79, 100, 132, 160, 164–165 Chronic City, 55 geographic, 220–231 “Ecstasy of Influence, The: A Plagiarism” historiographic, 221 (essay), 56 MFA program, 29, 72, 236 Letterman, David, 74 Midwest, The, 34, 220–231. See also Letzler, David, 43, 44 Heartland Myth Lewis, Sinclair, Main Street, 222, midwestern nationalism, 223–225 223–224, 227 racial stereotypes, 226–228 Leyner, Mark, 24 as synecdochic representation of America, Lin, Tao, 2 351–355 Lipsky, Dave Millennials, 3 Although of Course You End Up Becoming minimalism, 29 Yourself: A Road Trip, 4 “Mister Squishy” (story), 98, 103, 114, 133 End of the Tour, The, 5 Mitchell, David, 2 “Little Expressionless Animals” (story), 73, Mitchell, Susan, Generation X: Americans 74–75, 128 Aged 18 to 34, 21 loneliness, 24, 160, 161–162, 190, Morrissey, Tara, 204 200 Mulvey, Laura, 93 Lorentzen, Christian, 49, 50 Muncie, IN, 224 Luhmann, Niklas, 239 Munsters, The (TV show), 21 Lynch, David, 87 “My Appearance” (story), 73, 74, 75–76, Lynd, Helen and Robert, Middletown, 128 224, 227 mystery, 37–38, 40 “Lyndon” (story), 76–77, 177 mysticism, 104–106 Lyotard, Jean-François, Inhuman, The, 107 Nabokov, Vladimir, 69 Martone, Michael, “Flatness, The” narcissism, 128, 137 (essay), 231 narrative voice, 10, 45, 73, 160, 161, materialism, 134–136 166 mathematics, 114 Neiman-Marcus Nihilism, 28 Matrix, The (film), 134 neoliberalism, 7, 23 Max, D.T. See Every Love Story is a Ghost New Sincerity, The, 51–52, 236 Story (Max) New Yorker, The, “Good People,” 230 Maximalist novel, 240 Newton, Maude, 55 McCafferey, Larry, 19, 159 Nichols, Catherine, 136 McCain, John, xvi, 120 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 99–100, 104 McCain’s Promise, 112, 120, 174. See also Beyond Good and Evil, 98 “Up, Simba: Seven Days on the Trail of On the Genealogy of Morals, 99 an Anticandidate”; “Weasel, Twelve nihilism, 2, 27, 28, 45, 176, 192 Monkeys, and the Shrub” 9/11, 23, 25, 222–223. See also “View from McGurl, Mark, 33–34, 45, 204, 206, 221 Mrs. Thompson’s, The” Program Era, The, 29, 72, 236 nonfiction by Wallace, 111–122 McHale, Brian, 206, 221 book reviews, 113–114, 193 259

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nonfiction by Wallace (cont.) regionalism, 220, 221 consumer spectacle essays, 114–118 religious conversion, 195 ethical/political essays, 118–121 romantic body as object, 146–148 fiction within, 116–117 Shane Drinion, 150, 197, 243–244 overview of works, 111 Sheri Fisher, 241–243 service essays, 10, 112, 118, 120, 121 subjectivity displacement, 148 sports essays, 117–118 supernatural themes, 148–151 systems theory, 241–244 Obama, Barack, 174 Toni Ware, 146, 148 Oblivion, xvii, xvii, 9 paranoia, 130 “Another Pioneer,” 98, 104, 105–106, Parks and Recreation (TV show), 49 149, 214 Peoria, IL, 224, 230 “Good Old Neon,” xvi, 9, 12, 106–109, philosophy, 192, 195, 211–212 133, 149, 160 Phipps, Gregory, 146 “Incarcerations of Burned Children,” Pietsch, Michael, 7, 134, 142, 220 101–102, 103, 104 political correctness, 211–212 “Mister Squishy,” 98, 103, 114, 133 politics, 11, 20 “Oblivion,” 100–101, 208 ambivalence about, 25–27 “Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature,” 99 authority and, 176–179 “Soul Is Not a Smithy, The,” 98, 103 boredom and, 184 “Suffering Channel, The,” 99, 101, conservatism, 179–180 102, 114 Democratic Spirit, 178 oblivion, defining, 99 Equaliberty, 175 O’Connell, Michael J., 192, 199 ethical/political nonfiction, 118–121 O’Connor, Flannery, 45 Infinite Jest, 180–184 “Artificial Nigger, The” (story), 40 language and, 177–178 “Good Country People” (story), 41 the “other scene,” 175–177, 180 “Good Man is Hard to Find, A” (story), 40 Pale King, The, 184–185 “Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Soviet Union collapse, 24 Southern Fiction” (essay), 40–41 Wallace’s literary segue into, 24–27 O’Donnell, Patrick, 70 Poltergeist (film), 134 Office, The (TV show), 49 Ponsoldt, James, End of the Tour, The (film), 49 Owens, Robert, Gen X TV: The Brady Bunch Poor Yoricks’ Summer (blog), 149 to Melrose Place, 21 posthumanism, 142 Ozick, Cynthia, 215 postirony, 52 postmodern fiction, 160 Pale King, The, xvii, 3, 4, 6, 10, 33, 58–59, 67, postmodern irony, 39, 42 72, 103, 106, 117, 133, 142–154 postmodernism, 10–11, 19–20, 22, 29, 36, “Author’s Foreword,” 237, 238, 244 42, 127–128, 161 belief in, 192 post-postmodernism, 57 Chahla Neti-Neti, 205–206 post-structuralism, 12 Chris Fogle, 150, 195, 196 Powers, Richard, Prisoner’s Dilemma, 22 Claude Sylvanshine, 150 pragmatism, 192, 193, 195, 211–212 compared to “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” prayer, 190, 192 (Keats), 144–146, 149–154 Puig, Manuel, 69 David Cusk, 146, 148 Pynchon, Thomas, 2, 69 ghosts/haunting, 12 Crying of Lot 49, The, 69–71, 129, 236 heroism, 145–146, 151–154 Gravity’s Rainbow, 129, 206 Lane Dean, 241–243 Leonard Stecyk, 228–230 Quinn, Paul, 221 Meredith Rand, 145, 150, 243–244 politics, 184–185 race, 11, 175, 204–217 portrayals of race, 205–206, 216 Infinite Jest, 204–205 260

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irresolvability and, 208–210 Roth, Philip, 73 “Oblivion,” 208 Rushdie, Salman, Fury, 25 Pale King, The, 205–206 political correctness and, 211–212 Said, Edward, 205 pop-anthropological views on, salvation, 200–201 214–217 Saunders, George, 2 race/class differences, 227–228 Scalia, Antonin, 174 racialized comedy, 212–214 Schechner, Mark, 215 Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Schwanitz, Dietrich, 239 Urban Present, 208 self-consciousness, 4, 6, 19, 21, 22, 34, 51, 87, strategy provocation and, 210–214 112, 147, 165, 210, 214, 236 Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, self-image, 161 A, 207 self-reflection, 2 Rawls, John, 175 self-reflexivity, 2, 11, 19, 23, 26, 127, 132 realism, 39–41, 42, 88–90, 131–133 September 11 terrorist attacks, 23, 25, catatonic, 28 222–223. See also “View from crackpot, 22 Mrs. Thompson’s, The” and Gen-X writers, 29–30 Severs, Jeffrey, 9, 200 neorealism, 55 David Foster Wallace’s Balancing Books: radical, 130, 132 Fictions of Value, 7 regionalist, 44 Shanske, Darien, 143 Reality Bites (film), 21 Shklar, Judith, 182 regionalism, 11 Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the boosting, 227 Urban Present, xv, 111, 204, 208, 209, Midwestern, 34, 220–231. See also 211, 214 Midwest, The Simpsons, The (TV show), 49, 227 Southern, 39–41 sincerity, 3, 10, 39, 43, 51–52, 55, 58, 74, 76, regionalist realism, 44 127, 137, 159–160, 163, 164–165, religion 167–169, 182, 227, 236, 238, 242 belief vs. faith, 192–193 single-entendre principles, 19 Buddhism, 198 Singles (film), 21 Catholicism, 193 Smith, Henry Nash, Virgin Land, 221 Christianity, 194–195 Smith, James K.A., 191, 196 community and, 190 Smith, Terry, 216 conversion, 193–196 Smith, Zadie, 2, 88, 190, 192, 224, 240 defining, 191 Soja, Edward, 220 mysticism, 104–106 solipsism, 10, 11, 24, 51, 128–129, 130, 136, rituals and, 196–198 137, 142, 147, 150, 190, 200–201, 216 worship, 196–198 “Solomon Silverfish” (story), 29, 213 Review of Contemporary Fiction, 127 “Soul Is Not a Smithy, The” (story), 98, 103 “E Unibus Pluram: Television spirituality, 11, 190–201. See also faith and U.S. Fiction” (essay), xvi, 19–20, belief, 191 73, 111 community and, 198–201 “Future of Fiction, The” (essay), 23 meditation, 190 Ribbat, Christoph, 224 prayer, 190, 192 Ring, The (film), 134 worship, 190 Ripley, William Z., Main Street and Wall sports essays, 117–118 Street, 224 Staes, Toon, 143 Roiland, Josh, 116 Stein, Lorin, 132 Rolling Stone, xvi. See also “View from subjectivity displacement, 148 Mrs. Thompson’s, The” suffering, 97–109, 128, 145, 198, 216 romance tradition, 37–40, 41–42, 45 “Suffering Channel, The” (story), 99, 101, Romanticism, 143, 152 102, 114 261

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suicide, 33–34, 52, 106–107, 200, Wallace, David Foster 229–230 addiction struggles, 122 Sullivan, John Jeremiah, 3 aesthetic principles of, 5, 10–11, 79, 87, supernatural themes, 148–151. See also 159–170 ghosts/haunting Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), 200 “Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, and the American Idea, 175 A, xvi, 3, 9, 34–35, 115–116, 118, Amherst years, 173, 212 200, 207 author–reader relationship emphasis, “David Lynch Keeps His Head,” 114 160 “Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley,” chronology, xiv–xviii 116–117, 220, 231 in fiction of other writers, 55–56 “Getting Away from Already Being Pretty generational appeal of, 3 Much Away from It All,” 34, 114–115, Harvard years, 173 120, 209, 214, 220 impact on American literature, 33–45 “Shipping Out,” 111 influence on others’ works, 2, “Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never 8–9 Do Again, A,” 213 influences for, 9, 29, 40, 42, 67, 69, 72, 73, systems/systems theory, 235–245 122, 214 intentional bad form of, 57–59 technological materialism, 134–136 Kenyon College address, 190. See This is television, 161. See also “E Unibus Pluram: Water Television and U.S. Fiction”; “Little political overview of, 173–174 Expressionless Animals” posthumous publications, 4 irony in, 74 representation of race by, 204–217 references to Wallace, 49 rhetorical writing style, 54–56 as substitute for human relationships, 160 separation of persona from his writing, tennis essays, 117–118 6–7 “Tense Present: Democracy, English, and the shift in literary focus to politics, Wars over Usage” (essay), 112, 120 24–27 Terminator (film), 134 spirituality of, 11, 190–201 This is Water, xvii, 3, 4, 36, 49, 108, 111, 113, technical writing style, 43–44 190, 194–195 use of endnotes, 129, 130–132, 135–136 Thompson, Lucas, Global Wallace: David varied influence of, 49–60 Foster Wallace and World Literature, 7 Wallace-l listserv, 4 Thoreau, Henry David, 44 “Weasel, Twelve Monkeys, and the Shrub” Walden, 36 (essay), xvi, 112. See also McCain’s “Ticket to the Fair” (essay), 111, 114–115. Promise; “Up, Simba: Seven Days on the See also “Getting Away from Already Trail of an Anticandidate” (essay) Being Pretty Much Away from It All” Weeds (TV show), 49 TIME magazine, “Culture Comes Home, Westphal, Bertrand, 221 The,” 222–223 “Westward the Course of Empire Makes Its Trump, Donald, 25 Way” (story), 69, 72, 74, 77–79, 143, Turner, Frederick Jackson, 227 161, 227 Wharton, Edith, 225 “Up, Simba: Seven Days on the Trail of an Whitman, Walt, 174 Anticandidate” (essay), xvi, 112, 119, Williamson, Edwin, Borges, A Life, 2 121, 178–179, 180 Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 68, 72, 177 Updike, John, 114, 120–121 work, 196, 197, 239 work environments, 98, 100, 103 verisimilitude, 129 workshops, creative writing, Videodrome (film), 134 28–30 “View from Mrs. Thompson’s, The,” xvi, 23, worlding, 237 120, 200, 210, 220, 222–223, 224–228 worship, 11, 108, 190, 196–198 262