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African-Americans, 27, 39, 312 n, 318 n

Aiken, Conrad, 294

alarm systems, 163, 318 n

alcohol abuse programs, 105, 106, 113–14, 123, 127, 133, 147, 315 n, 316 n

Amherst, 13–22, 24–28, 30–33, 35, 37–52, 55, 56, 67, 75, 90, 113, 119, 137–38, 159, 167, 174, 312 n, 315 n

graduation at, 50–51

humor magazine at, 26–27, 31

opening convocation at, 15

Stearns Hall at, 15–16, 18, 19, 20, 24, 311 n

Valentine Dining Hall at, 18, 21, 26, 27, 32, 41, 45

Wallace’s apartment in, 101, 103–4

Wallace’s interview at, 14, 19

Wallace’s teaching at, 84, 88, 99–105, 148, 166

Wallace’s theses at, 39–48, 71

“the Womb” at, 30, 33, 72

Amherst Review, 35, 41

“Another Pioneer” (Wallace), 279

antidepressants, 32, 34, 35, 52, 53, 96, 114–17, 154, 251, 297, 298, 300

Arizona, 51, 145, 196, 272

see also Tucson, Ariz.

Arizona, University of, 50, 52, 55–65, 71–76, 83, 87, 88, 90, 91, 94, 102, 110, 159, 171, 174, 188, 192, 312 n, 313 n, 314 n, 318 n

Carter’s workshop at, 74–75, 76, 104

Wallace’s reading at, 105

Wallace’s status at, 96

Wallace’s teaching at, 79–80, 99, 105, 112, 115–16, 148, 176

Aronson, Heather, 57, 65, 73, 74, 112, 113, 116, 314 n

Arrival, 84, 219

Ashby, Forrest, 57–58, 73, 101, 103–4, 105, 113, 116, 155, 196

Atlantic, 87, 216, 217

Atlas Books, 260–61

“Balloon, The” (Barthelme), 29–30

bandanas, 64–65, 103, 165, 168, 174, 179, 187, 221, 300

Bangs, Lester, 122, 141, 142, 316 n

Barker, Clive, 143

Barth, John, 47, 89–92, 94, 109, 131, 156, 174, 312 n, 315 n

Barthelme, Donald, 29–30, 31, 47, 60, 90

Beautiful Crap, 296, 301

Being There (movie), 6

Believer, 270, 295

Bellow, Saul, 96, 178–79

Bennington Writers Conference, 96, 104

Berkeley, Bishop, 91, 314 n

Bidart, Frank, 257

Big Craig (Granada House resident), 141, 145, 150, 167, 317 n, 318 n, 320 n

Birkerts, Sven, 76, 129, 190–91, 216, 217, 319 n

Bloomington, Ill., 173–81, 185, 187–90, 203, 207, 219, 220, 227, 230–34, 245, 250, 253, 267, 268, 269, 274, 286, 319 n

Wallace’s houses in, 177, 183, 187, 200–201, 232–33, 237, 249, 250, 252, 282

Blue Velvet (movie), 85, 214

Bookworm (radio show), 253–54

Boston, Mass., 37–38, 119, 123, 131, 132, 143, 153, 158, 159, 174, 190, 234, 317 n, 319 n

Arlington Center for the Arts in, 190–91

locksmiths in, 318 n

“sober house” in, 145–46, 153

Wallace’s hatred of, 163

Boston Phoenix, 221, 320 n

Boswell, Marshall, 288, 315 n, 318 n, 324 n

Boswell, Robert, 57, 65, 72, 313 n

Bradshaw, John, 170

Bradway, Becky, 324 n, 325 n

brat pack writers, the, 60–61, 82, 110, 313 n

see also Ellis, Bret Easton; McInerney, Jay

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (Wallace), 245–49, 253, 255, 264, 277, 316 n, 324 n

Bright Lights, Big City (McInerney), 60, 67, 96

Brighton, Mass., 136–47

Brooke, Fred, 20, 24

Brookens Junior High School, 7, 8

Broom of the System, The (Wallace), 50, 51, 61, 88, 101, 155, 203, 281, 312 n, 315 n, 316 n, 318 n –19 n

editorial vision for, 315 n

hint of other stories in, 63, 311 n –12 n

income from, 66–67, 82, 84, 315 n

marriage and family therapy in, 29, 71

membrane theory in, 68–69

movie option for, 82

other Wallace works compared with, 59, 75, 86, 109, 110, 159, 183, 318 n

parrot in, 46–47, 100

publication of, 65–71, 77–78, 81–82, 240, 312 n, 314 n

Pynchon and, 47, 48, 60, 66, 69, 70, 77, 80, 82, 312 n

reviews and criticism of, 81–82, 120, 276

summary of, 44–48

title of, 47, 71

Wallace’s reading of, 83

Brothers Karamazov, The (Dostoevsky), 288

Buddhism, 181, 257, 291

bugs and insects, 6, 24

spiders, 54, 57, 165, 313 n

tarantulas, 16, 116

Burgess, Anthony, 73

Burkhart, Kathe, 126, 127, 132

Bush, George W., 259, 295–96

California, 52–53, 88, 105, 266–71

Cambridge, Mass., 131, 144, 163, 229

see also Harvard University

Cantor, Georg, 260–61, 274–76

Caribbean cruise, 201–5, 245

cars, 33, 59, 103, 105, 122, 150, 157, 164, 170, 175, 177, 239, 268, 300

breakdowns of, 73–74, 119

racing of, 185

sleeping in, 24, 53

theft from, 98

Carter, Mary, 50, 55, 61, 87, 88, 266, 313 n, 314 n

forcing out of, 79

workshop of, 74–75, 76, 104

Carver, Raymond, 60, 68, 95–96, 166, 319 n

“Catatonic Realism” (Ultraminimalism; Bad Carver), 110

Catcher in the Rye, The (Salinger), 288

Catholicism, 166, 251, 316 n, 322 n

Catholics (Moore), 164

Caudle, Sarah, 268, 269

Cavell, Stanley, 119, 132–33, 142

celebrity, 179, 203, 224

Champaign-Urbana, Ill., 1–14, 17, 51, 67, 73, 113, 145, 200, 286

movie theaters in, 6

Walden in, 189–90

Wallace’s returns to, 20, 22–23, 28–30, 33–34, 88, 89, 105–6, 112, 116, 154, 282–83

Chetkovich, Kathryn, 282

Chicago, Ill., 67, 73, 104, 181, 196, 252

Chicago Tribune, 216, 218, 254

children, 165, 232, 239, 248, 251, 282, 322 n

“Church Not Made with Hands” (Wallace), 104

“Clang Birds, The” (Wallace), 23, 311 n

Claremont, Calif., 266–71, 282–84, 297, 300, 301

Wallace’s houses in, 268, 282, 283

Clockwork Orange, A (Burgess), 73

Cobain, Kurt, 221, 322 n

Cohen, Jesse, 260–61

“Compliance Branch, The” (Wallace), 292–93

computers, 146, 153, 158, 166, 167, 180, 191, 217–19, 232, 283, 287, 301, 319 n

Conjunctions, 106, 117, 138, 175–76, 264, 315 n

Conn, Charis, 222, 237, 242

Conroy, Frank, 83, 105–6

Coons, Chris, 21

Coover, Robert, 84, 130

Corrections, The (Franzen), 262, 264, 296

Costello, Mark, 19–28, 35, 49, 73, 78–79, 100, 103, 134, 163, 184, 201–2, 234–35, 312 n, 315 n, 318 n, 322 n

Granada House and, 139, 140

in Harvard Yard, 146

Karr and, 147, 317 n

literary aspirations of, 123, 316 n

McLean and, 135, 136

in New York, 173, 196, 222, 224, 227

in Syracuse, 164–65

Wallace compared with, 19, 39, 48

Wallace’s collaboration with, 123, 125, 150–51

Wallace’s correspondence with, 23, 50, 53, 59, 67, 252, 256, 280, 315 n, 323 n

Wallace’s relationship with, 27, 33, 39, 43

as Wallace’s roommate, 20–21, 27, 32, 54, 119–20, 127–28, 316 n

Wallace’s work and, 123, 124, 125, 316 n, 324 n

Crane, Stephen, 153, 312 n

criminal records, 138, 317 n

cruises, 201–5, 221–22, 228, 245, 320 n

Crying of Lot 49, The (Pynchon), 30, 31, 48, 53, 69, 70

Cutter, Weston, 283–84

Dalkey Archive Press, 151, 174, 177

DeLillo, Don, 47, 66, 77, 81, 149, 165, 214, 224, 234, 289, 312 n, 319 n, 324 n