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Wallace’s correspondence with, 176, 200, 205, 208, 219, 223–28, 235–38, 243, 245, 250, 258, 260, 262, 265, 268, 273, 274, 283, 295, 322 n, 323 n

De Man, Paul, 288, 313 n, 317 n

“Depressed Person, The” (Wallace), 241, 248, 269, 322 n

depression, 25, 31–37, 202, 246, 265

drugs for, see antidepressants

in fiction, 34–37, 41, 161, 311 n

suicidal, 22, 33, 35, 42, 154

of Wallace, see Wallace, David Foster, depression of

Derrida, Jacques, 38, 56, 57, 74, 288, 313 n

Desai, Raj, 15–17, 19

Details, 208, 219

DeVries, Willem, 19, 41

Dickinson, Emily, 15, 152

dogs, 6, 8, 58, 64, 163, 231, 258, 296, 300

Bella, 290

Jeeves, 189, 191–92, 193, 207, 220, 227, 231, 233, 268, 269

The Drone, 207, 227, 231, 233, 249–52, 320 n

Werner, 252, 268, 290, 299

Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 103, 141–42, 208–9, 214, 288, 296

Drama of the Gifted Child, The (Miller), 169–70

drugs, recreational, 10–11, 30–31, 202, 203, 249

acid (LSD), 11, 30, 133, 166

cocaine, 30, 85, 138, 222

in fiction, 47, 161–62, 175, 193

mushrooms, 30–31

Wallace’s use of, see Wallace, David Foster, recreational drug use of

see also marijuana

Eagleton, Thomas, 25

economics, 27, 28

Eggers, Dave, 264, 289, 290

Eich, Doug, 165–66

Eliot, T. S., 38, 58, 294

Ellis, Bret Easton, 60–61, 66, 73, 82, 110, 209

Elman, Richard, 56, 57, 60–61, 77–78, 165, 313 n, 314 n

Emerson College, 146, 148, 149, 151, 153, 154, 187

“Empty Plenum, The” (Wallace), 120–23, 126, 128

Eno, Brian, 31, 123

entertainment, 168–69, 183, 186, 193, 225, 240, 286

Esquire, 87, 96, 104, 208, 216

ethnicity, 213, 264, 321 n

“E Unibus Pluram” (Wallace), 172, 174, 209, 254, 260, 322 n

Everything and More (Wallace), 274–77

fashion spread, 97

“Fatalism” (Taylor), 40–41

Federer, Roger, 290, 296

“Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young” (Wallace), 109–12, 115, 135, 212, 316 n, 324 n

Flygare, John, 9, 14, 20

“Forever Overhead” (Wallace), 55, 57, 90, 313 n

Foster, Fenton, 169, 197

Foster Street transitional facility (sober house), 145–46, 153

Fraden, Rena, 266–67, 269, 270

France, Wallace in, 262

Francis B. (recovery friend), 201, 230, 231–32, 258, 263, 268, 322 n

Franzen, Jonathan, 148, 163–67, 176, 191, 201–2, 209, 225, 232, 252, 266, 273, 300, 316 n, 323 n, 324 n

novels of, 115, 130, 262, 264, 296

in Syracuse, 164, 166

Wallace’s correspondence with, 98–99, 100, 116, 119, 124, 127, 129–31, 143–45, 148, 152, 153, 157–58, 164–67, 170, 173, 180, 196, 197, 198, 200, 202, 219, 223, 245, 250, 258–59, 281, 282, 289–92, 296, 297, 312 n, 315 n, 316 n, 317 n

future, the, 40–41, 59, 77, 190–91

Galassi, Jonathan, 115, 116

Gang Starr, 122–23

Garrett, George, 96

Gass, William, 74, 106, 119, 129

Girl with Curious Hair (Wallace), 106–9, 117–18, 120, 144, 174, 190, 207, 217, 236, 249, 316 n, 321 n

Karr’s views on, 148

publication of, 128–32, 171, 212

reviews of, 128–29, 132

“Girl with Curious Hair” (Wallace story), 73, 111, 112, 126, 131, 314 n, 315 n

God, 23, 140, 166, 215, 239, 251, 322 n

Gödel, Kurt, 260, 261

“Good Old Neon” (Wallace), 255, 257, 277–78, 324 n

“Good People” (Wallace), 292–93

Gourmet, 272–73

GQ, 297–98, 299

grammar, 2–3, 25, 77, 102, 187, 210, 230, 271, 318 n

Granada House, 136–47, 150, 153, 156, 163, 167, 180, 208, 294, 318 n

Infinite Jest and, 137, 141, 159, 206–7, 317 n, 320 n

Gravity’s Rainbow (Pynchon), 34, 67, 225, 316 n

Great and Secret Show, The (Barker), 143

Green, Karen, 269–72, 279, 281–83, 286, 287, 290, 291, 295–301, 324 n

marriage to Wallace, 282–83

Green, Stirling, 270, 272–73, 282, 300

grunge, Grunge Fiction, 223, 231, 321 n –22 n

Guggenheim Fellowship, 131, 238

hair, 64, 103, 136, 180, 197, 221, 249, 250

Hamacher, Christopher, 291

Harbach, Chad, 288

Harms, Juliana, 248–52, 262

Harper’s, 9, 148–49, 155–58, 172, 184–87, 222, 262, 321 n

Pale King section in, 292–93

Wallace’s cruise piece for, 201–5, 221–22, 228

Harris, Charlie, 174, 176, 181, 184, 207, 266

Harris, Kymberly, 181, 184–85, 188–89, 201, 207, 208, 223, 232

Infinite Jest and, 181, 188

Harris, Victoria, 181, 184, 207

Harrison, Colin, 186, 201, 202, 262

Harvard University, 137, 149, 153, 229, 261, 275

Wallace’s philosophy studies at, 119, 127, 132–34, 136, 141, 146, 190, 316 n, 317 n

Hawaii, 26–70

Hawke, Ethan, 220, 224

health insurance, 50, 118–19, 169, 171, 239

Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, A (Eggers), 264

Henry, DeWitt, 148

“Here and There” (Wallace), 62–63, 130, 131, 148, 287, 313 n, 322 n

Hesse, Doug, 237

Howard, Gerry:

Broom and, 66–71, 77–78, 81, 82, 83, 314 n

Infinite Jest and, 162, 163, 171, 172, 220–21

job change of, 117

short stories and, 73, 86–87, 98, 107–9, 117, 131

Somerville visit of, 133

Wallace’s correspondence with, 68–71, 81, 82, 107–8, 117, 138, 172, 315 n

Wallace’s meetings with, 83, 97, 99, 131–32, 133

Hubbard, Stephanie, 165

Hyde, Lewis, 156, 318 n

“Hysterical Realism,” 264–65

Idol, Billy, 85

Illinois, 17, 21, 23, 183, 259, 319 n

state fair in, 184–87, 208, 319 n, 320 n

Illinois, University of, 1, 16, 28

see also Champaign-Urbana, Ill.; Chicago, Ill.

Illinois State University (ISU), 151, 173–76, 180, 187–88, 197–98, 221–22, 230–31, 233, 234, 237, 239, 266, 267, 274

Infinite Jest (Wallace), 5, 8, 58, 94, 153, 158–64, 166, 171–77, 181–86, 188–201, 204–32, 234–37, 239, 242, 264, 265, 286, 301, 311 n –14 n, 317 n –23 n

Avril Incandenza in, 3, 160, 177, 197, 199, 206, 313 n, 321 n

blue in, 208, 320 n

book tours for, 220–27, 229

copyediting of, 209–11, 228

cover of, 208

cuts and revisions to, 182–83, 190, 191, 193–96, 198–201, 205–7, 234

dedication of, 197

DeLillo and, 205, 208, 223, 225–26, 319 n

Hal in, 10–11, 13, 247, 258, 323 n, 324 n

Internet Age and, 217–19

Larson in, 317 n

Madame Psychosis in, 177

movie option for, 225

naming rights to year in, 319 n

other Wallace works compared with, 245, 253, 255–58, 261, 263, 276, 279, 280, 293, 295, 296

paperback of, 228, 229

postcard campaign for, 211

publication of, 211, 212, 255

publication party for, 222–23, 224

recovery in, 137, 139, 141, 151, 177, 179, 182, 316 n –19 n

redemption and, 213, 214, 215

reputation of, 286–88

reviews of, 216–17

spiders in, 313 n

start of, 159, 318 n

structure of, 182–83, 321 n

success of, 215–16, 225, 230, 240