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 1984: "The Piano and the Pantechnicon", The Allegheny Review 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: , Western Humanities Review 1987: "Say Never", Florida Review 1989: included in Girl with Curious Hair 1987: , 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 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 1992: "Three Protrusions", Grand Street no. 42 [Excerpt from Infinite Jest] 1993: "The Awakening of My Interest in Annular Systems" , Harper's Excerpt from Infinite Jest 1994 "Several Birds", The New Yorker Excerpt from Infinite Jest 1995 "An Interval" , The New Yorker Excerpt from Infinite Jest 1996 "Chivalry", Grand Street no. 55 [Excerpt from Infinite Jest] 1997: "Death Is Not The End", Grand Street no. 60 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 Reprinted in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men 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)"; "Peoria (9)", TriQuarterly #112 Excerpts 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 2009 "Wiggle Room" , The New Yorker Excerpt from The Pale King 2009 "All That" , The New Yorker 2010 "A New Examiner," Harper's Excerpt from The Pale King 2011 "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

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

Other books 1990: Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present. Second edition with a new preface by Costello published in 2013. 2003: Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity. 2010: Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will. Columbia University Press, 2010 [reprint]. . 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. . [posthumous] A collection of excerpts. (2014): String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis

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", The Review of Contemporary Fiction 2012: Reprinted in Both Flesh and Not 1990: "Signifying Rappers" (with Mark Costello), The Missouri Review 1990: Expanded to book-length and published as Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present 1990: "The Horror of Pretentiousness: 'The Great and Secret Show' by Clive Barker ", The Washington Post 1990: "Michael Martone's Fort Wayne is Seventh on Hitler's List", Harvard Book Review 1990: "The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress" The Review of Contemporary Fiction 2012: Reprinted in Both Flesh and Not 1991: "Exploring Inner Space: War Fever by J.G. Ballard", The Washington Post 1991: "The Million-Dollar Tattoo: Laura's Skin by F.J. Fiederspiel", New York Times Book Review 1991: "Tragic Cuban Emigre and a Tale of 'The Door to Happiness':The Doorman by Reinaldo Arenas", The Philadelphia Inquirer Book Review 1991: "Presley as Paradigm: Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of Cultural Obsession by Greil Marcus", Los Angeles Times 1991: "Tennis, Trigonometry, Tornado", Harper's Magazine 1997: reprinted in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again as "Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley" 2014: reprinted in String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis under its new title 1991: "Morte d'Author: An Autopsy" Harvard Book Review 1992: reprinted as "Greatly Exaggerated" in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again 1992: "Kathy Acker's Portrait of an Eye: Three Novels", 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" 2014: reprinted under its new title in String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis 1993: "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction" Review of Contemporary Fiction 1997: reprinted in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again lightly edited and with footnotes 1994: "Ticket to the Fair" Harper's Magazine in Harper's 1997: reprinted in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again as "Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All" 1994: "Mr. Cogito" Spin 2012: Reprinted in Both Flesh and Not 1996: "The String Theory" Esquire 1997: reprinted as "Tennis Player Michael Joyce's Professional Artistry as a Paradigm of Certain Stuff about Choice, Freedom, Discipline, Joy, Grotesquerie, and Human Completeness" in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again 2014: reprinted under its new title in String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis 1996: "Shipping Out: On the (nearly lethal) comforts of a luxury cruise" Harper's 1997: reprinted as "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again 1996: "God Bless You, Mr. Franzen", Harper's letter (September 1996) 1996: "Democracy and Commerce at the US Open", Tennis (included with the New York Times Magazine) 2012: reprinted in Both Flesh and Not 2014: reprinted in String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis 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 as "Back in New Fire" in Both Flesh and Not 1996: "Quo Vadis – Introduction", Review of Contemporary Fiction 1996: "David Lynch Keeps His Head" in Premiere 1997: published and enlarged in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again 1996: "Feodor's Guide", Voice Literary Supplement (book review) 2005: reprinted as "Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky" in Consider the Lobster 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 and edited in Consider the Lobster as "Certainly the End of Something or Other, One Would Sort of Have to Think: (Re John Updike's Toward the End of Time)" 1998: "Neither Adult Nor Entertainment", Premiere published in an abbreviated and bowdlerized version under the names Willem R. deGroot and Matt Rundlet reprinted and expanded as "Big Red Son" in Consider the Lobster 1998: "The Nature of the Fun", Fiction Writer 1998: reprinted in Why I Write: Thoughts on the Craft of Fiction (Will Blythe, ed.) 2012: reprinted in Both Flesh and Not 1998: "F/X Porn", Waterstone's Magazine 2012: reprinted in Both Flesh and Not as "The (As It Were) Seminal Importance of Terminator 2" 1998: "Laughing with Kafka", speech given at the Pen American Center to celebrate a new publication of The Castle by Schocken Books. 1998: first printed in Harper's 2005: reprinted (with different footnotes) as "Some Remarks on Kafka's Funniness from Which Probably Not Enough Has Been Removed" in Consider the Lobster 1999: "Overlooked: Five Direly Underappreciated U.S. Novels >1960", Salon.com 2012: reprinted in Both Flesh and Not 1999: "100-word statement", Rolling Stone 2000: "Rhetoric and the Math Melodrama" (heavily edited), Science 2000: response to a letter to the editor responding to the original article 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 as an e-book 2005: reprinted (from the e-book) in Consider the Lobster 2008: reprinted (from the e-book 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 2001: "Tense Present: Democracy, English and the wars over usage", Harper's 2005: reprinted and enlarged as "Authority and American Usage (or, 'Politics and the English Language' is Redundant)" in Consider the Lobster 2001: "The Best of the Prose Poem", Rain Taxi 2012: Reprinted in Both Flesh and Not 2001: "9/11: The View From the Midwest" , Rolling Stone, October 25, 2001 2001: published online by Rolling Stone as "The View from Mrs. Thompson's" 2005: reprinted as "The View from Mrs. Thompson's" in Consider the Lobster 2004: "Twenty-Four Word Notes" printed as "Word Note" (various), Oxford American Writer's Thesauraus 2012: reprinted in Both Flesh and Not 2004: "Borges on the Couch", New York Times Book Review See also: author's reply 2012: Reprinted in Both Flesh and Not 2004: "Consider the Lobster", Gourmet , published 2005: reprinted in Consider the Lobster 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", published The Atlantic 2005: reprinted and expanded in Consider the Lobster