marriage to Wallace, 282–83
Green, Stirling, 270, 272–73, 282, 300
grunge, Grunge Fiction, 223, 231, 321n–22n
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, 321n
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, 316n, 317n
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, 313n, 322n
Hesse, Doug, 237
Howard, Gerry:
Broom and, 66–71, 77–78, 81, 82, 83, 314n
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, 315n
Wallace’s meetings with, 83, 97, 99, 131–32, 133
Hubbard, Stephanie, 165
Hyde, Lewis, 156, 318n
“Hysterical Realism,” 264–65
Idol, Billy, 85
Illinois, 17, 21, 23, 183, 259, 319n
state fair in, 184–87, 208, 319n, 320n
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, 311n–14n, 317n–23n
Avril Incandenza in, 3, 160, 177, 197, 199, 206, 313n, 321n
blue in, 208, 320n
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, 319n
Hal in, 10–11, 13, 247, 258, 323n, 324n
Internet Age and, 217–19
Larson in, 317n
Madame Psychosis in, 177
movie option for, 225
naming rights to year in, 319n
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, 316n–19n
redemption and, 213, 214, 215
reputation of, 286–88
reviews of, 216–17
spiders in, 313n
start of, 159, 318n
structure of, 182–83, 321n
success of, 215–16, 225, 230, 240
tenth anniversary of, 290–91
three main plot strands of, 159–62, 182
“What Are You Exactly” in, 318n
Internet Age, Internet, 217–19, 286–87, 324n
Iowa, University of, Writers’ Workshop of, 50, 61, 106, 312n
irony, 80, 95, 156–57, 178, 187, 209, 213, 221, 255, 265, 275, 277, 279, 288, 317n, 318n
IRS, 255–57, 291–95, 298, 315n, 323n, 325n
Jacobs, Timothy, 288
Jamaica, 249–50
James, Caryn, 81–82
Janowitz, Tama, 82, 97
Javit, Dan, 15–17
Jeopardy! (TV show), 67, 75–76, 103, 112, 316n
Jeopardy story, see “Little Expressionless Animals”
Jews, 63–64
“John Billy” (Wallace), 87, 106, 129, 131
Johnson, Lyndon B., 84–85
Joyce, James, 9, 316n
Joyce, Michael, 208
JT (Jate), 71–73, 85, 88, 89, 95, 105, 226
Justus, Andrea, 52–54, 59
Kafka, Franz, 12, 29, 37, 70, 253, 312n, 321n
Kakutani, Michiko, 82, 217, 254–55, 279
Karr, Dev, 146, 147, 151, 152, 164–65, 170
Karr, Mary, 146–49, 151–54, 158, 162–70, 180–81, 219, 232, 251, 282, 317n, 318n, 319n
husband of, 146, 151, 163, 164, 167
Infinite Jest and, 177, 188, 206–7
Wallace’s problems with, 167–68, 170, 173, 175, 177, 180, 233, 296
Wallace’s therapy and, 181
Keats, John, 234–35
Kennick, William, 22, 25–26, 28, 32, 40, 49, 54, 113
Kenyon College, 284–86, 291, 293, 324n
Kirkus Reviews, 81, 128, 216