Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace (58 page)

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

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