Contents
Acknowledgments
Samuel Cohen and Lee Konstantinou - Introduction: Zoologists, Elephants, and Editors
Part 1: History
Paul Giles - All Swallowed Up: David Foster Wallace and American Literature
Don DeLillo - Informal Remarks from the David Foster Wallace Memorial Service in New York on October 23, 2008
Josh Roiland - Getting Away from It All: The Literary Journalism of David Foster Wallace and Nietzsche’s Concept of Oblivion
George Saunders - Informal Remarks from the David Foster Wallace Memorial Service in New York on October 23, 2008
Part 2: Aesthetics
Samuel Cohen - To Wish to Try to Sing to the Next Generation: Infinite Jest’s History
Rick Moody - Tribute Written for Wallace Family Memorial Book, 2008
Lee Konstantinou - No Bull: David Foster Wallace and Postironic Belief
David Lipsky - An Interview with David Foster Wallace
Heather Houser - Infinite Jest’s Environmental Case for Disgust
Dave Eggers - Foreword to Tenth Anniversary Edition of Infinite Jest
Part 3: Community
Ed Finn - Becoming Yourself: The Afterlife of Reception
Jonathan Franzen Informal Remarks from the David Foster Wallace Memorial Service in New York on October 23, 2008
Kathleen Fitzpatrick Infinite Summer:Reading, Empathy, and the Social Network
Michael Pietsch and Rick Moody On Editing David Foster Wallace: An Interview
Ira B. Nadel - Consider the Footnote
Molly Schwartzburg - Conclusion: Observations on the Archive at the Harry Ransom Center
Notes on Contributors
Permissions
Index