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<p><em>Last updated June 17, 2024</em></p>

<p>
    If you're looking for a guide to reading the complete works of David Foster
    Wallace, you've come to the right place. I've collected a list of all the
    books and uncollected pieces I know about, as well as published transcripts
    of interviews with him. Some pieces are available on the Internet; I'm only
    going to link to the version made available by the official publisher, if
    such a thing exists, to lower the chance of broken links. Otherwise, you're
    on your own.
</p>

<p>
    I couldn't have made this list on my own and so I am indebted to everyone
    who has compiled a list in this vein before me. All I did was combine
    existing lists, update them to take new publications into account, and add
    a visual element. For reference, I used the following:
</p>

<ul>
    <li>
        <a href="http://www.thehowlingfantods.com/dfw/uncollected-dfw.html">
            Uncollected DFW
        </a> over at
        <a href="http://www.thehowlingfantods.com">The Howling Fantods</a>
        (last updated December 2012)
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="http://machines.plannedobsolescence.net/dfwwiki/index.php?title=Works_List">
            Works List
        </a>
        hosted by
        <a href="http://machines.plannedobsolescence.net/">
            machines.plannedobsolescence.net
        </a> (last updated May 9, 2009)
    </li>
    <li>
        <a href="https://nasebohren.wordpress.com/category/david-foster-wallace/">
            MAS 078: David Foster Wallace
        </a>
        at
        <a href="https://nasebohren.wordpress.com">
            nasebohren.wordpress.com
        </a> (posted April 27, 2011)
    </li>
</ul>

<p>
    I made this page because all the other lists I found were years out of date
    and I wanted to gather an up-to-date version for my own personal use
    anyway. Hope you find it useful. Feel free to <a
    href="/about">contact me</a> if you have any questions or
    corrections.
</p>

<hr />

<h2>Books published during his lifetime</h2>

<div class="book">
    <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6750.The_Broom_of_the_System">
        <img src="/img/dfw/broom.jpg" />
    </a>
    <div class="content">
        <h3>
            <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6750.The_Broom_of_the_System">
                The Broom of the System
            </a>
            (1987)
        </h3>
        <p>
            A novel that was originally written for his undergraduate honors thesis
            in English at Amherst College. Kind of hard to explain ... it's a very
            strange book, and DFW has described it as a dialogue between
            Wittgenstein and Derrida, but don't let that put you off; it's a ton of
            fun, and you can see him start to develop his ideas and style here.
        </p>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="book">
    <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8822819-girl-with-curious-hair">
        <img src="/img/dfw/girl.jpg" />
    </a>
    <div class="content">
        <h3>
            <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8822819-girl-with-curious-hair">
                Girl with Curious Hair
            </a>
            (1989)
        </h3>
        <p>
            His first short story collection. Picked up while he was doing his MFA
            at the University of Arizona.
        </p>
        <ul>
            <li>Little Expressionless Animals</li>
            <li>Luckily the Account Representative Knew CPR</li>
            <li>Girl with Curious Hair</li>
            <li>Lyndon</li>
            <li>John Billy</li>
            <li>Here and There</li>
            <li>My Appearance</li>
            <li>Say Never</li>
            <li>Everything Is Green</li>
            <li>Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way</li>
        </ul>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="book">
    <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45771.Signifying_Rappers">
        <img src="/img/dfw/rappers.jpg" />
    </a>
    <div class="content">
        <h3>
            <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45771.Signifying_Rappers">
                Signifying Rappers
            </a>
            (1990)
        </h3>
        <p>A non-fiction collaboration with Mark Costello, who was his college
        roommate. About the history and significance of rap, with an emphasis
        on the local (Boston) angle. Not really a must-read unless you're a
        diehard DFW fan and/or a fan of rap (I'm both, and I liked it, for what
        it's worth).</p>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="book">
    <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6759.Infinite_Jest">
        <img src="/img/dfw/ij.jpg" />
    </a>
    <div class="content">
        <h3>
            <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6759.Infinite_Jest">
                Infinite Jest
            </a>
            (1996)
        </h3>
        <p>The thousand-page novel that catapulted him into stardom. His most
        widely-known work.</p>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="book">
    <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6748.A_Supposedly_Fun_Thing_I_ll_Never_Do_Again">
        <img src="/img/dfw/supposedly.jpg" />
    </a>
    <div class="content">
        <h3>
            <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6748.A_Supposedly_Fun_Thing_I_ll_Never_Do_Again">
                A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
            </a>
            (1997)
        </h3>
        <p>His first collection of essays, which had been originally published in
        Harper's, Esquire, Premiere, among others.</p>
        <ul>
            <li>Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley</li>
            <li>E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction</li>
            <li>Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All</li>
            <li>Greatly Exaggerated</li>
            <li>David Lynch Keeps His Head</li>
            <li>Tennis Player Michael Joyce's Professional Artistry as a
            Paradigm of Certain Stuff about Choice, Freedom, Discipline, Joy,
            Grotesquerie, and Human Completeness</li>
            <li>A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again</li>
        </ul>
    </div>
</div>

<a name="bi"></a>
<div class="book">
    <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6753.Brief_Interviews_with_Hideous_Men">
        <img src="/img/dfw/bi.jpg" />
    </a>
    <div class="content">
        <h3>
            <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6753.Brief_Interviews_with_Hideous_Men">
                Brief Interviews with Hideous Men 
            </a>
            (1999)
        </h3>
        <p>His second short story collection. I've omitted some repeated
        titles ("The Devil" appears twice; "Brief Interviews"
        appears four times; "Yet Another Example" appears three times).</p>
        <ul>
            <li>A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life</li>
            <li>Death Is Not the End</li>
            <li>Forever Overhead</li>
            <li>Brief Interviews with Hideous Men</li>
            <li>Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Certain Borders (XI) / (VI) / (XXIV)</li>
            <li>The Depressed Person</li>
            <li>The Devil Is a Busy Man</li>
            <li>Think</li>
            <li>Signifying Nothing</li>
            <li><em>Datum Centurio</em></li>
            <li>Octet</li>
            <li>Adult World (I) / (II)</li>
            <li>Church Not Made with Hands</li>
            <li>Tri-Stan: I Sold Sissee Nar to Ecko</li>
            <li>On His Deathbed, Holding Your Hand, the Acclaimed New Young
            Off-Broadway Playwright's Father Begs a Boon</li>
            <li>Suicide as a Sort of Present</li>
        </ul>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="book">
    <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/821914.Everything_and_More">
        <img src="/img/dfw/everything.jpg" />
    </a>
    <div class="content">
        <h3>
            <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/821914.Everything_and_More">
                Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity
            </a>
            (2003)
        </h3>
        <p>A non-fiction book about infinity (within the context of
        mathematics), with a focus on the work of German mathematician Georg
        Cantor. This one is also probably not worth reading unless you're a
        diehard DFW fan. Helps if you have a math background, too.
        </p>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="book">
    <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6749.Oblivion">
        <img src="/img/dfw/oblivion.jpg" />
    </a>
    <div class="content">
        <h3>
            <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6749.Oblivion">Oblivion</a>
            (2004)
        </h3>
        <p>His third (and last) short story collection. Some of the stories
        were originally published in publications like McSweeney's, Esquire,
        etc.</p>
        <ul>
            <li>Mister Squishy</li>
            <li>The Soul Is Not a Smithy</li>
            <li>Incarnations of Burned Children</li>
            <li>Another Pioneer</li>
            <li>Good Old Neon</li>
            <li>Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature</li>
            <li>Oblivion</li>
            <li>The Suffering Channel</li>
        </ul>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="book">
    <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6751.Consider_the_Lobster_and_Other_Essays">
        <img src="/img/dfw/lobster.jpg" />
    </a>
    <div class="content">
        <h3>
            <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6751.Consider_the_Lobster_and_Other_Essays">
                Consider the Lobster
            </a>
            (2005)
        </h3>
        <p>His second essay collection and the last one published during his
        lifetime. Essays originally published in publications like Harper's,
        Rolling Stone, Premiere, etc.</p>
        <ul>
            <li>Big Red Son</li>
            <li>Certainly the End of Something or Other, One Would Sort of Have
            to Think</li>
            <li>Some Remarks on Kafka's Funniness from Which Probably Not
            Enough Has Been Removed</li>
            <li id="authority">Authority and American Usage</li>
            <li>The View from Mrs. Thompson's</li>
            <li>How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart</li>
            <li>Up, Simba</li>
            <li>Consider the Lobster</li>
            <li>Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky</li>
            <li>Host</li>
        </ul>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="book">
    <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3091374-mccain-s-promise">
        <img src="/img/dfw/mccain.jpg" />
    </a>
    <div class="content">
        <h3>
            <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3091374-mccain-s-promise">
                McCain's Promise: Aboard the Straight Talk Express with John
                McCain and a Whole Bunch of Actual Reporters, Thinking About
                Hope
            </a>
            (2008)
        </h3>
        <p>This is a straight-up reprint of <strong>Up, Simba</strong> from
        Consider the Lobster. Nothing new, as far as I can tell. I personally
        didn't bother getting this one.</p>
    </div>
</div>

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<hr />

<h2>Books published posthumously</h2>

<div class="book">
    <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8317976-fate-time-and-language">
        <img src="/img/dfw/ftl.jpg" />
    </a>
    <div class="content">
        <h3>
            <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8317976-fate-time-and-language">
                Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will
            </a>
            (2010)
        </h3>
        <p>Published posthumously. Contains his honors thesis for his
        <em>other</em> major, philosophy: a highly specific rebuttal to
        philospher Richard Taylor's 1962 proposal on determinism. The thesis
        itself is quite short; the bulk of this book contains emails and other
        academic writing from some scholars in the field. This is another one
        that's hard to justify reading unless you're a huge DFW fan or just
        really into arcane mathematical logic.</p>
    </div>
</div>

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<div class="book">
    <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9443405-the-pale-king">
        <img src="/img/dfw/tpk.jpg" />
    </a>
    <div class="content">
        <h3>
            <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9443405-the-pale-king">
                The Pale King
            </a>
            (2011)
        </h3>
        <p>Published posthumously and in an unfinished state but, if I may
        editorialise for a second, still incredible. About a bunch of people in
        Illinois who work for the IRS. There's no real plot per se, just damn
        good writing.</p>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="book">
    <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13528351-both-flesh-and-not">
        <img src="/img/dfw/flesh.jpg" />
    </a>
    <div class="content">
        <h3 id="flesh">
            <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13528351-both-flesh-and-not">
                Both Flesh and Not
            </a>
            (2012)
        </h3>
        <p>A posthumous collection of essays that were originally published in
        The New York Times, Review of Contemporary Fiction, The Atlantic,
        etc.</p>
        <ul>
            <li>Federer Both Flesh and Not</li>
            <li>Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young</li>
            <li>The Empty Plenum: David Markson’s Wittgenstein's Mistress</li>
            <li>Mr. Cogito</li>
            <li>Democracy and Commerce at the U.S. Open</li>
            <li>Back in New Fire</li>
            <li>The (As It Were) Seminal Importance of <em>Terminator 2</em></li>
            <li>The Nature of the Fun</li>
            <li>Overlooked: five direly underappreciated U.S. novels &gt;1960</li>
            <li>Rhetoric and the Math Melodrama</li>
            <li>The Best of the Prose Poem</li>
            <li>Twenty-Four Word Notes</li>
            <li>Borges on the Couch</li>
            <li>Deciderization 2007—A Special Report</li>
            <li>Just Asking</li>
        </ul>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="book">
    <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21423291-the-david-foster-wallace-reader">
        <img src="/img/dfw/reader.jpg" />
    </a>
    <div class="content">
        <h3>
            <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21423291-the-david-foster-wallace-reader">
                The David Foster Wallace Reader
            </a>
            (2014)
        </h3>
        <p>A posthumous collection of various bits of writing (fiction and
        non-fiction), including some course materials for his creative writing
        classes and email exchanges with his mother. The only previously
        published work in this collection that isn't in one of the books above
        is "The Planet Trillaphon as it Stands in Relation to the Bad Thing",
        which was first published in the Amherst Review in 1984; the rest is
        primarily reprints.
        </p>
        <ul>
            <li>The Planet Trillaphon as it Stands in Relation to the Bad
            Thing</li>
            <li>Excerpts from Broom, Girl, Infinite Jest, Brief Interviews,
            Oblivion, and The Pale King</li>
            <li>Teaching Materials</li>
            <li>Nonfiction from Supposedly, Consider the Lobster, and Both Flesh and Not</li>
        </ul>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="book">
    <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27246166-string-theory">
        <img src="/img/dfw/tennis.jpg">
    </a>
    <div class="content">
        <h3>
            <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27246166-string-theory">
                String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis
            </a>
            (2016)
        </h3>
        <p>A posthumous collection of his tennis-related essays, all of which
        have previously appeared in his three other essay collections. I
        personally wouldn't bother getting this one.</p>
        <ul>
            <li>Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley</li>
            <li>How Tracy Austin Broke my Heart</li>
            <li>Tennis Player Michael Joyce's Professional Artistry as a
            Paradigm of Certain Stuff About Choice, Freedom, Limitation, Joy,
            Grotesquerie, and Human Completeness</li>
            <li>Democracy and Commerce at the U.S. Open</li>
            <li>Federer Both Flesh and Not</li>
        </ul>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="book">
    <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59441851-something-to-do-with-paying-attention">
        <img src="/img/dfw/attention.jpg">
    </a>
    <div class="content">
        <h3>
            <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59441851-something-to-do-with-paying-attention">
                Something to Do with Paying Attention

            </a>
            (2022)
        </h3>
        <p>
            This is a well-made McNally Editions reprint of the Chris Fogle chapter in <em>The Pale King</em>.
            Potentially a nice gift for someone with an extensive DFW collection. Otherwise not necessary. 
        </p>
    </div>
</div>

<br /><br />
<hr />

<h2>Published transcripts</h2>

<div class="book">
    <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5986375-this-is-water">
        <img src="/img/dfw/water.jpg">
    </a>
    <div class="content">
        <h3>
            <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5986375-this-is-water">
                This Is Water
            </a>
            (2009)
        </h3>
        <p>
            The transcript of his 2005 Kenyon College commencement speech. You
            really don't need to get this in book form; it's available online,
            both as a video and as a transcript, and it's short enough that the
            book's pages are 90% whitespace.
        </p>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="book">
    <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6916961-although-of-course-you-end-up-becoming-yourself">
        <img src="/img/dfw/although.jpg">
    </a>
    <div class="content">
        <h3>
            <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6916961-although-of-course-you-end-up-becoming-yourself">
                Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself
            </a>
            (2010)
        </h3>
        <p>
            In 1996, David Lipsky spent five days with David Foster Wallace on
            behalf on <em>Rolling Stone</em>, most of them on the road. The
            piece was never actually published in <em>Rolling Stone</em>, and
            it was only after his death that it was made into a book. It's also
            been made into a movie called <a
            href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_the_Tour">The End of
            the Tour</a>, though <a
            href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/29/why-the-end-of-the-tour-isnt-really-about-my-friend-david-foster-wallace">not
            everyone is a fan</a>.
        </p>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="book">
    <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13099799-conversations-with-david-foster-wallace">
        <img src="/img/dfw/conversations.jpg">
    </a>
    <div class="content">
        <h3>
            <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13099799-conversations-with-david-foster-wallace">
                Conversations with David Foster Wallace
            </a>
            (2012)
        </h3>
        <p>If you're going to get one book of interviews with David Foster
        Wallace, this is the one to get. Contains various interviews conducted
        between 1987 and 2008, with a eulogy by David Lipsky at the end.</p>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="book">
    <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15823473-the-last-interview-and-other-conversations">
        <img src="/img/dfw/last.jpg">
    </a>
    <div class="content">
        <h3>
            <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15823473-the-last-interview-and-other-conversations">
                The Last Interview and Other Conversations
            </a>
            (2012)
        </h3>
        <p>
        Lots of overlap with the previous one but much shorter: of the six
        interviews in this book, only two are new compared to Conversations
        above (one with Dave Eggers, and one with Stacey Schmediel). Hard to
        justify getting unless you're really committed to filling out your
        collection.
        </p>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="book">
    <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18670233-quack-this-way">
        <img src="/img/dfw/quack.jpg">
    </a>
    <div class="content">
        <h3>
            <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18670233-quack-this-way">
                Quack This Way
            </a>
            (2013)
        </h3>
        <p>An interview with Bryan A. Garner, whose book "Garner's Modern
        American Usage" was the subject of a glowing review in DFW's
        <a href="#authority">Authority and American Usage</a>. It's a very
        short book (146 pages in my copy, but with VERY large text and tons of
        whitespace), with an extended foreword by Garner (written after
        Wallace's death), and it focuses primarily on writing/language.
        I personally thought it was worth getting, but your mileage may vary.
        </p>
    </div>
</div>

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<hr />

<h2>Periodicals</h2>
<p>
    Periodical publications (literary magazines, newspapers, etc) containing a
    piece by DFW that isn't available elsewhere. Most (but not
    all) of these are currently out of print so you'll have to find a used
    version somewhere.
</p>
<p>
    I didn't include any pieces that were subsequently collected in one of the
    books above; for a slightly out-of-date list of those, see the <a
    href="http://www.thehowlingfantods.com/dfw/uncollected-dfw.html">Howling
    Fantods page</a>, under the section "COLLECTED WORKS PUBLISHED UNDER
    DIFFERENT TITLES".
</p>

<div class="book">
    <div class="content">
        <h3>Allegheny Review 2 (1984)</h3>
        <p>
        Contains the uncollected short story <strong>The Piano in the
        Pantechnicon</strong> (it was originally published in this journal when
        he was an undergrad at Amherst). I can't seem to find a used version
        anywhere, but if you have $250 to spare you can get it <a
        href="https://alleghenyreview.wordpress.com/order/">directly from the
        Allegheny Review</a>.
        </p>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="book">
    <div class="content">
        <h3>Western Humanities Review 41 (1987)</h3>
        <p>
            Contains the uncollected short story <strong>Other Math</strong>,
            a three-pager about a boy named Joseph who believes himself to be
            in love with his grandfather. I wasn't able to find a copy
            anywhere. Maybe at the University of Utah's library, or the Harry
            Ransom Center?
        </p>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="book">
    <div class="content">
        <h3>New York Times (August 2, 1987)</h3>
        <p>
            Contains a letter to the editor titled <strong>Matters of Sense and
            Opacity</strong>. Available from <a
            href="http://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/02/books/l-matters-of-sense-and-opacity-773987.html?mcubz=3">nytimes.com</a>.
        </p>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="book">
    <div class="content">
        <h3>Between C & D (Winter 1989)</h3>
        <p>
            Contains the uncollected short story <strong>Crash of '69</strong>,
            which is available at <a
            href="https://biblioklept.org/2010/11/29/crash-of-69-david-foster-wallace/">Bibliokept</a>.
            Between C &amp; D was an experimental NYC-based literary magazine
            that ran from 1983 to 1990, and I am unable to find a copy of this
            particular issue ANYWHERE. According to this <a href="http://drei-punkte.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2018/10/between-cd-2178.html">blog post (in Japanese)</a>, the magazine had a nontraditional binding technique that involved glue and Ziplock bags, so I'm not holding out much hope of finding a copy. (Thanks to Suren H.G. for pointing this out.) Probably available at the Ransom Center, though.
        </p>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="book">
    <div class="content">
        <h3>The Washington Post (February 19, 1990)</h3>
        <p>
            A book review of Clive Barker's The Great and Secret Show,
            published as
            <strong>The Horror of Pretentiousness</strong>. Available at <a
            href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1990/02/19/the-horror-of-pretentiousness/ea31f4c8-4f6a-40ca-af84-3a1d77e32cbc/?utm_term=.2a5f91599900">washingtonpost.com</a>.
        </p>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="book">
    <div class="content">
        <h3>Harvard Book Review (Spring 1990)</h3>
        <p>
            A book review of Michael Martone's "Fort Wayne Is Seventh on
            Hitler's List". Could not find this anywhere.
        </p>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="book">
    <div class="content">
        <h3>New York Times Book Review (April 1991)</h3>
        <p>
            A book review of F. J. Fiederspiel's "Laura's Skin" entitled
            <strong>The Million-Dollar Tattoo</strong>. Could not find
            this anywhere.
        </p>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="book">
    <div class="content">
        <h3>The Washington Post (April 28, 1991)</h3>
        <p>
            A book review of J.G. Ballard's War Fever,
            published as
            <strong>Exploring Inner Space</strong>. Available at <a
            href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1991/04/28/exploring-inner-space/39298a00-9030-4ae6-a3b9-03325e10b703/?utm_term=.10b83254805b">washingtonpost.com</a>.
        </p>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="book">
    <div class="content">
        <h3>Philadelphia Inquirer Book Review (July 14, 1991)</h3>
        <p>
            A book review of Reinaldo Arenas' The Doorman, published as 
            <strong>Tragic Cuban Emigre and a Tale of 'The Door to
            Happiness'</strong>. Could not find this anywhere.
        </p>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="book">
    <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4579063-conjunctions-17">
        <img src="/img/dfw/conjunctions.jpg" />
    </a>
    <div class="content">
        <h3>
            <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4579063-conjunctions-17">
                Conjunctions 17
            </a>
            (Fall 1991)
        </h3>
        <p>
        Contains the uncollected short story <strong>Order and Flux in
        Northampton</strong> (it was originally published in this issue). The issue itself
        is no longer available through Conjunctions directly (they've sold out), but you can
        read the piece on the Conjunctions website <a href="https://www.conjunctions.com/print/article/david-foster-wallace-c17">here</a>. Thanks to David Van Fossen for pointing this out.
        </p>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="book">
    <div class="content">
        <h3>Los Angeles Times (November 24, 1991)</h3>
        <p>
            A book review of Greil Marcus' Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of Cultural
            Obsession, published as <strong>Presley As Paradigm</strong>.
            Available at <a
            href="http://articles.latimes.com/1991-11-24/books/bk-326_1_elvis-presley">latimes.com</a>.
        </p>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="book">
    <div class="content">
        <h3>Harvard Review (Spring 1992)</h3>
        <p>
            A book review of Kathy Acker's "Portrait of an Eye: Three Novels".
            Available at <a
            href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/27559426?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents">jstor.org</a>
            (only the first page is available to guests).
        </p>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="book">
    <div class="content">
        <h3>Philadelphia Inquirer Book Review (May 24, 1992)</h3>
        <p>
            A book review of Siri Hustvedt's The Blindfold, published as 
            <strong>Iris' Story: An Inversion Of Philosophical Skepticism
            </strong>. Apparently also published in Contemporary Literary
            Criticism Vol. 76, 1992. I couldn't find a link, sadly.
        </p>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="book">
    <img src="/img/dfw/harpers.jpg" />
    <div class="content">
        <h3>Harper's Magazine (August 1992)</h3>
        <p>
            Contains the uncollected short story <strong>Rabbit
            Resurrected</strong>, which is meant to be a parodic sequel to John
            Updike's <em>Rabbit at Rest</em> for a Harper's series called "To
            be continued". You can order a physical copy from <a
            href="http://backissues.com/issue/Harpers-Magazine-August-1992">backissues.com</a>
            for $10.95 (at time of posting, they only have 3 copies left), or
            you can just read the story at
            <a href="https://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/HarpersMagazine-1992-08-0072766.pdf">
                harpers.org</a>.
        </p>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="book">
    <div class="content">
        <h3>The Village Voice Vol. 41, No. 7 (Feb 13, 1996)</h3>
        <p>The Village Voice commissioned an exquisite corpse (a novel where
        each chapter is written by a different author each week); DFW wrote
        chapter eleven of the novel, entitled <strong>The Fifth Column: A
        Novel</strong>. I was not able to find this text anywhere (digitally
        or physically) :(
        </p>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="book">
    <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45768.The_Future_of_Fiction">
        <img src="/img/dfw/contemporary.jpg" />
    </a>
    <div class="content">
        <h3>
            <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45768.The_Future_of_Fiction">
                The Review of Contemporary Fiction 16
            </a>
            (Spring 1996)
        </h3>
        <p>
            This issue is also called <strong>The Future of Fiction</strong>.
            It was edited by DFW, who also wrote its introduction, entitled
            <strong>Quo Vadis—Introduction</strong>. You can get it <a
            href="http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/product/vol-xvi-1-the-future-of-fiction/">directly
            from the publisher (Dalkey Archive Press)</a> or get it used.
        </p>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="book">
    <div class="content">
        <h3>Harper's Magazine (September 1996)</h3>
        <p>
            Contains a letter to the editor titled <strong>God Bless You, Mr.
            Franzen</strong>, addressing Kurt Vonnegut's response to Jonathan
            Franzen's essay "Perchance to Dream". You can probably find this
            online.
        </p>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="book">
    <img src="/img/dfw/parnassus.jpg" />
    <div class="content">
        <h3>Parnassus: Poetry in Review Vol. 23 Nos. 1 & 2 (1998)</h3>
        <p>
            DFW contributed to a multi-author piece called <strong>The
            Flexicon</strong>, which is described as 'An homage to the lexical
            richness of English'. Sadly the Parnassus Review is now defunct and
            the website appears somewhat broken, but I was able to find this a
            scanned version of this piece online.
        </p>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="book">
    <div class="content">
        <h3>Harper's Magazine (October 1998)</h3>
        <p>
            A mini-collection of <strong>Brief Interviews with Hideous
            Men</strong> pieces. The only one that's not in the <a
            href="#bi">book</a> is #16, which you can find at <a
            href="https://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/HarpersMagazine-1998-10-0059714.pdf">
                harpers.org</a>.
        </p>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="book">
    <div class="content">
        <h3>Rolling Stone No. 830/831 (Dec. 30, 1999-January 6, 2000)</h3>
        <p>
            A piece called <strong>100-word statement</strong> (actually 209
            words), about the upcoming millennium and commissioned by Rolling
            Stone for their Party 2000 issue. You should be able to find this
            online.
        </p>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="book">
    <img src="/img/dfw/sonora.jpg" />
    <div class="content">
        <h3>Sonora Review 55/56 (2009)</h3>
        <p>
        Contains the uncollected short story <strong>Solomon
        Silverfish</strong>, which was originally published in Sonora Review 16
        (Fall 1987) right after he finished his MFA program at University of
        Arizona (which is where the Sonora Review is based). This issue also
        contains, as part of its 100-page DFW tribute, various excellent essays
        and interviews about him, and I would highly recommend getting a copy
        if you're trying to complete your collection. (It's out of print now,
        but I managed to get a used copy off <a
        href="https://www.amazon.com/Sonora-Review-Issues-55-56/dp/B003NXMDQ0">Amazon</a>
        for about $20 USD.)
        </p>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="book">
    <img src="/img/dfw/newyorker.jpg" />
    <div class="content">
        <h3>The New Yorker (December 14, 2009)</h3>
        <p>
            Contains the uncollected short story <strong>All That</strong>,
            which was originally meant for <a href="tpk">The Pale King</a> but
            didn't make it into the published version. Available from the
            <a
            href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/12/14/all-that-2">New
            Yorker website</a>.
        </p>
    </div>
</div>

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<h2>Other</h2>

<div class="book">
    <div class="content">
        <h3>The Enema Bandit and the Cosmic Buzzer (early 1980s?)</h3>
        <p>A short story that was written when he was an undergraduate at Amherst
        College. Not published anywhere, but if you're lucky enough to visit
        the <a
        href="http://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingaid.cfm?eadid=00503">Harry
        Ransom Centre</a> ...</p>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="book">
    <div class="content">
        <h3>Interview with Eduardo Lago (1990)</h3>
        <p>
       Originally in Spanish. Translation available at <a href="https://electricliterature.com/a-brand-new-interview-with-david-foster-wallace-71c03223294b">Electric Literature</a>.
    </div>
</div>

<div class="book">
    <div class="content">
        <h3>Interview with <em>Engender</em> Magazine (Jan 1990)</h3>
        <p>
        Details + transcript available from the <a href="https://www.dfwsociety.org/2018/10/12/lost-david-foster-wallace-interview-from-1989/">DFW Society</a>.
    </div>
</div>

<div class="book">
    <div class="content">
        <h3>Interview with <em>Elle</em> Magazine (1996)</h3>
        <p>
        Interview with Gerald Howard for <em>Elle</em>, entitled
        "infinite jester: David Foster Wallace and his 1,079 mystical,
        brilliant pages". Not reproduced in any of the interview collections
        above. You can find the <a
        href="https://sancrucensis.wordpress.com/2018/01/07/david-foster-wallaces-1996-interview-in-elle/">transcript here</a>.
        </p>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="book">
    <div class="content">
        <h3>Charlie Rose interview (May 17, 1996)</h3>
        <p>
            He appeared on the Charlie Rose show for an interview, along with
            Jonathan Franzen and Mark Leyner. You can
            find a clip and transcript on the <a
            href="https://charlierose.com/videos/15361">Charlie Rose website</a>.
        </p>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="book">
    <div class="content">
        <h3>Words With the Singular David Foster Wallace (March 1997)</h3>
        <p>
        Interview with Zachary Chouteau for the American Booksellers
        Association, shortened for its original publication in The Week. You
        can find the <a href="http://www.ptwi.com/~bobkat/aba.html">unabridged
        transcript here</a>.
        </p>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="book">
    <div class="content">
        <h3>Charlie Rose interview (March 27, 1997)</h3>
        <p>
            He appeared on the Charlie Rose show for an interview. You can
            find a clip and transcript on the <a
            href="https://charlierose.com/videos/23311">Charlie Rose website</a>.
        </p>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="book">
    <div class="content">
        <h3>The Usage Wars (March 30, 2001)</h3>
        <p>
            Radio interview with David Foster Wallace and Bryan A. Garner.
            An MP3 recording of the interview is available at <a
            href="http://archives.wbur.org/theconnection/2001/03/index.html">wbur.org</a>,
            but I couldn't find a transcript anywhere (it's not transcribed in
            Quack This Way). Thanks to David Van Fossen for the link.
        </p>
    </div>
</div>

<div class="book">
    <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/130068.The_Oxford_American_Writer_s_Thesaurus">
        <img src="/img/dfw/thesaurus.jpg" >
    </a>
    <div class="content">
        <h3>
            <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/130068.The_Oxford_American_Writer_s_Thesaurus">
                The Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus
            </a>
            (2004)
        </h3>
        <p>This is literally a thesaurus, so don't expect too much, but DFW was
        on the editorial board and contributed some usage examples. I got a
        copy off Amazon because I wanted a physical thesaurus anyway, but if
        you just want to see DFW's contributions, you can find all of them in
        <a href="#flesh">Both Flesh and Not</a>, collected under "Twenty-Four
        Word Notes").</p>
    </div>
</div>