The David Foster Wallace Reader by Wallace, David Foster -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Welcome Introduction FICTION

“The Planet Trillaphon as It Stands in Relation to the Bad Thing” (1984)

Afterword by Kevin J. H. Dettmar

THE BROOM OF THE SYSTEM (1987)

1 5 /a/ 11 /c/

Afterword by Gerald Howard

GIRL WITH CURIOUS HAIR (1989)

“Little Expressionless Animals”

Afterword by Hari Kunzru

“My Appearance”

INFINITE JEST (1996)

Year of Glad Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment “In the eighth…” Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment Autumn—Year of Dairy Products from the American Heartland As of Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment Winter B.S. 1960—Tucson Az “Here is how…” “But there’s this…” “If, by the…” “The bathroom has…” 14 November 8 November Winter, B.S. 1963, Sepulveda CA “It is starting…” “As at all…” “And re Ennet…” “Joelle used to…” 11 November

Afterword by Nam Le

“The ceiling was…” Notes and Errata

BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN (1999)

“A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life” “B.I. #14” “B.I. #40” “Forever Overhead” “The Depressed Person”

OBLIVION (2004)

“Good Old Neon” “Incarnations of Burned Children”

Afterword by Nick Maniatis

“The Suffering Channel”

THE PALE KING (2011)

§1 §5 §6 §8 §9 §33 §36

Afterword by Deborah Treisman

TEACHING MATERIALS

Introduction by Sally Foster Wallace ENGLISH 64A

First-Day Pop Quiz Student Data Sheet

ENGLISH 170R, SPRING 2003

Course Syllabus Student Info Sheet Specs and Guidelines for Peer-Review Missive

ENGLISH 183A, FALL 2004

Guidelines for Writing Helpful Letters of Response to Colleagues’ Stories

ENGLISH 183D, SPRING 2008

Syllabus Student Data Sheet

ENGLISH 183A, YOUR LIBERAL-ARTS $ AT WORK

16 October 2002 30 October 2002 13 November 2002 6 October 2004 1 December 2004

NONFICTION

“Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley” (1990)

Afterword by Mark Costello

“E Unibus Pluram” (1990)

Afterword by David L. Ulin

“Getting Away from Already Pretty Much Being Away from It All” (1993)

Afterword by Anne Fadiman

“A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again” (1995) “The Nature of the Fun” (1998) “Some Remarks on Kafka’s Funniness from Which Probably Not Enough Has Been Removed” (1999) “Authority and American Usage” (1999) “The View from Mrs. Thompson’s” (2001) “Consider the Lobster” (2004)

Afterword by Jo Ann Beard

“Federer Both Flesh and Not” (2006)

Afterword by Sven Birkerts

About the Contributors Copyright Acknowledgments About the Author Also by David Foster Wallace Newsletters Table of Contents Copyright

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