Review of Contemporary Fiction, 118, 124, 151, 174
Walden’s job at, 189–90
Wallace interview in, 155, 178, 214, 215, 314n
Wallace’s work in, 109–12, 120, 142, 172
Rich C., 113–14, 115, 251
Girl and, 132, 133
Wallace’s correspondence with, 105, 117, 118, 138, 139–40, 257, 259
Rolling Stone, 223, 259–60, 262–63
Rose, Charlie, 223, 229–30, 231
rose, frying of, 89, 92, 315n
Rucker, Rudy, 276
Russell, Bertrand, 26, 126, 251
Ryan, Michael, 138
Sabrina, 26–27, 31
“Sabrina Brothers in the Case of the Hung Hamster, The” (Wallace), 26–27
Saint James, Susan, 85, 106–8
Salinger, J. D., 4, 35, 288
Salon.com, 229, 253, 259, 264, 321n
San Francisco, Calif., 105, 113, 224, 316n
Scott, A. O., 255
Seattle, Wash., 224, 321n
Sedaris, David, 299
“Self-Harm as a Sort of Offering” (collected later as “Suicide as a Sort of Person”; Wallace), 241–42
September 11 attacks, 262–63
sex, 29, 30, 57–58, 96, 181, 221, 225, 232–34, 241, 247, 277, 323n, 324n
advertising and, 123
in fiction, 48, 58, 69, 73, 197, 243
masturbation, 153, 317n
Signifying Rappers (Wallace and Costello), 125, 150–51, 208, 323n
Silverblatt, Michael, 253–54
Simpson, Mona, 96
sincerity, 157, 158, 164, 178, 208, 213, 221, 231, 255, 263, 288, 319n, 321n
Slick Rick, 122–23
Smith, Lee, 125, 208
“Solomon Silverfish” (Wallace), 63–64, 313n
Somerville, Mass., 119–25, 127–28, 130, 133, 136, 142, 145, 146, 155, 316n, 317n, 318n
Sorrentino, Gilbert, 56, 109, 116, 321n
Spano, Brian, 13
Spark, Debra, 139, 146, 154, 164, 167, 175, 210
Story of My Life (McInerney), 95, 103
Streitfeld, David, 219
substance abuse recovery, 135–39, 149, 179, 219, 317n
suffering, 163, 237, 272, 317n
“Suffering Channel, The” (Wallace), 278–81, 296
suicide, 22, 33, 35, 37, 42, 52, 57, 104, 109, 117, 134, 143, 154, 298–301, 322n
in fiction, 130, 159, 161, 199, 241–42, 278
Supposedly Funny Thing I’ll Never Do Again, A (Wallace), 228–29, 232, 234
Suttree (McCarthy), 166, 213
Swarthmore College, 163–64
Syracuse, N.Y., 152, 164–70, 173, 177, 179–84, 234
tattoos, 138, 147, 249, 282
taxes, 194, 296, 315n
Taylor, Richard, 40–41
television, 18, 31, 88, 106–11, 152, 218, 233, 252
in fiction, 67, 75–76, 85–86, 103, 104, 106–9, 112
Wallace’s appearances on, 223–24, 229–30, 231
Wallace’s piece on, 148–49, 155–58, 172, 184
Wallace’s watching of, 6, 20–21, 42–43, 51, 94, 101, 104, 113, 116, 120, 213, 220, 251, 283, 286, 311n
tennis, 8–12, 14, 17, 20, 56, 58, 95, 130, 161, 167, 179, 188, 320n
in letters, 186, 194
“Tennis, Trigonometry, Tornadoes” (Wallace), 184, 228, 319n–20n
tennis, Wallace’s writing on, 208, 261, 290, 320n
Tennis (magazine), 208, 320n
Texas, 167, 258–59, 261, 265
therapy, 22, 29, 70, 113, 136, 149, 169–70, 177, 179, 181, 233, 283
electroconvulsive, 25, 35, 42, 117, 123
in fiction, 62, 68, 318n
group, 139, 169
marriage and family, 29, 70, 283
Thich Nhat Hanh, 262
“This Living Hand” (Keats), 234–35
“Three Protrusions” (Wallace), 175
“Ticket to the Fair” (Wallace), 184–87, 319n, 320n
Titanic (movie), 230
tobacco chewing, 103, 163, 165, 202, 222, 232, 251, 315n
tornadoes, 200, 320n
Toward the End of Time (Updike), 243–44
Tractatus Logico-Philosophus (Wittgenstein), 44, 126, 142, 315n
Trebek, Alex, 67, 75, 76, 117–18
Tucson, Ariz., 51, 53–65, 71–77, 132, 314n
apartments in, 54–55, 64, 71–72, 79, 88
cabin near, 115, 167
Wallace’s returns to, 105, 112–16
see also Arizona, University of
Turner, Alice, 96, 97, 104, 106–7, 108, 125, 128
Wallace’s correspondence with, 106, 173, 210, 211, 227, 230
Twenty-Seventh City, The (Franzen), 115, 130
Understanding David Foster Wallace (Boswell), 288, 324n
Updike, John, 29, 30, 96, 108, 115, 184, 223, 243–44, 254
Urbana, Ill., see Champaign-Urbana, Ill.
Urbana High School, 9, 13, 185, 265
Us, 97
“View from Mrs. Thompson’s, The” (Wallace), 262–63, 276
Viking Penguin, 66–71, 81, 82, 83, 98, 101, 117, 122, 314n
legal department of, 107, 108–9, 112, 315n
short story collection publication dropped by, 109, 112
Voice Literary Supplement, 150, 208–9, 216
Vollmann, William, 130, 131, 143, 155, 213, 264, 289, 316n
Walden, Gale, 58–59, 64, 72–75, 80, 81, 97, 100, 147, 153, 165, 188, 323n
Wallace’s break with, 83–84, 92, 104–5, 123, 128