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Discussed in
- DFW interviewed by Terry Gross — Fresh Air, NPR (March 5, 1997)
- DFW with Christopher Lydon — The Connection, WBUR Boston (February 21, 1996; the rediscovered 'lost' interview)
- David Foster Wallace and the Harry Ransom Center (CultureMap Austin, five-part series, July 2011)
- David Foster Wallace, my fateful correspondent (Nora Krug, Washington Post Books, 30th-anniversary column) — with eight unpublished DFW letters, a postcard and a holiday card
- Diary: David's Presence (Gale Walden, London Review of Books)
- Hardcore Literature IJ Lecture II: In the Zone (pp. 233–489) — the Entertainment as womb-return, Joelle's veil and overdose, flow states, AA clichés, the freedom debate, Eschaton
- I Hate Infinite Jest ep. 23 (pp. 652–682) — guest Hannah Smart: the Marlon Bain endnote, Avril–Orin, and a spoiler run through the wraith, JOI's suicide, and DMZ
- IJ Book Club Ep. 03: To sleep, perchance to dream? — early season-1 panel on the Gately/DuPlessis burglary, JOI's biography, Kate Gompert, and a first tour of the filmography (pp. ~55–79 + endnote 24)
- IJ Book Club Ep. 20: Taken Ill Shortly After Coming Home From Work — the Antitoi murders from inside the shop, the 1963 mattress scene, the NA marijuana meeting (pp. ~480–508)
- IJ Book Club Ep. 35 (S3 Ep 1): Mama Ewell at a speculum party — Gately's resurrection: the breathing ceiling, Ewell's bedside confession, and the gospel according to Calvin Thrust (pp. ~809–827)
- IJ Book Club Ep. 40 (S3 Ep 6 by feed position): Dilaudid-colored Sky — the toothbrush fight arrives: Tim's duck-symbolism decode of the Stice window scene, the is-Hal-really-laughing dispute, Lyle the unreincarnated prankster, and Gately's Demerol dream (pp. ~876–891)
- IJ Book Club S2 Ep. 5: Tragedy Narrowly Averted — the Christ-typology email for the Gately fight, the cafeteria scene, Steeply's father and M*A*S*H, Day's billowing shape (pp. ~627–651)
- Infinite Cast Part 108: Hal a week clean, Mrs. Waite's cake (pp. 845–854) — commentary segment (~14 min): not an NA share, the past-life mother taken personally, Wallace-as-Mrs.-Waite — and not a word about the bus heist
- Infinite Cast Part 42: endnote 110 concluded — commentary segment (~20 min): the mechanics recap, the Steeply-inception hypothesis, plot-in-footnotes, the weed-addict window
- Infinite Cast Part 44: Eschaton rules pt 1 — commentary segment (~15 min): both men on the hill made grotesque on purpose, Wallace as both of them, and RAND's real-world Eschaton
- Infinite Jest Turns 30 — Three21 Productions, 26 for '26 Episode 1 (host Nick explains the book to a first-timer, with audio-footnote asides)
- Infinite Mess: David Foster Wallace's Archive
- Inside David Foster Wallace's Private Self-Help Library
- Mapping the Zone Ep. 04: I just need to put the book down and go for a walk — monthly IJ read-through, pp. 198–306 (Joelle's overdose, the Schacht match, Ennet House, Orin's backstory, Poor Tony)
- The Best Mind of His Generation
- The Great Concavity Ep. 10: Nick Maniatis of The Howling Fantods — 19 years of the DFW web (Feb 2016, around IJ's 20th anniversary)
- Too Much Information
- Where's Wallace? Infinite Jest's Return to Reality