a full footnote apparatus in a mainstream magazine — the formal signature IJ's endnotes carry

echoes

Early text: [essay] (paraphrase; scan, not quotable) The essay conducts a second, qualifying layer of argument in its footnotes, deployed at length inside a glossy consumer food magazine. [scan, footnotes throughout]
IJ echo: The novel's famously extensive endnote apparatus (e.g. the filmography endnote and the pharmacological notes) — the same double-track prose that stages qualification, digression, and a second authorial voice below or behind the main line. Wallace's magazine journalism carries the device into non-fiction; the audiobook of this very essay had to invent a second processed voice to read the footnotes aloud (cross-ref below).
Weight: verbal-echo