in Harvard Yard, 146
Karr and, 147, 317n
literary aspirations of, 123, 316n
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, 315n, 323n
Wallace’s relationship with, 27, 33, 39, 43
as Wallace’s roommate, 20–21, 27, 32, 54, 119–20, 127–28, 316n
Wallace’s work and, 123, 124, 125, 316n, 324n
Crane, Stephen, 153, 312n
criminal records, 138, 317n
cruises, 201–5, 221–22, 228, 245, 320n
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, 312n, 319n, 324n
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, 322n, 323n
De Man, Paul, 288, 313n, 317n
“Depressed Person, The” (Wallace), 241, 248, 269, 322n
depression, 25, 31–37, 202, 246, 265
drugs for, see antidepressants
in fiction, 34–37, 41, 161, 311n
suicidal, 22, 33, 35, 42, 154
of Wallace, see Wallace, David Foster, depression of
Derrida, Jacques, 38, 56, 57, 74, 288, 313n
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, 320n
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, 313n, 314n
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, 321n
“E Unibus Pluram” (Wallace), 172, 174, 209, 254, 260, 322n
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, 316n, 324n
Flygare, John, 9, 14, 20
“Forever Overhead” (Wallace), 55, 57, 90, 313n
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, 322n
Franzen, Jonathan, 148, 163–67, 176, 191, 201–2, 209, 225, 232, 252, 266, 273, 300, 316n, 323n, 324n
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, 312n, 315n, 316n, 317n
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, 316n, 321n
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, 314n, 315n
God, 23, 140, 166, 215, 239, 251, 322n
Gödel, Kurt, 260, 261
“Good Old Neon” (Wallace), 255, 257, 277–78, 324n
“Good People” (Wallace), 292–93
Gourmet, 272–73
GQ, 297–98, 299
grammar, 2–3, 25, 77, 102, 187, 210, 230, 271, 318n
Granada House, 136–47, 150, 153, 156, 163, 167, 180, 208, 294, 318n
Infinite Jest and, 137, 141, 159, 206–7, 317n, 320n
Gravity’s Rainbow (Pynchon), 34, 67, 225, 316n
Great and Secret Show, The (Barker), 143
Green, Karen, 269–72, 279, 281–83, 286, 287, 290, 291, 295–301, 324n