Sources

The secondary record: criticism, interviews, guides, and online discussion, grouped by kind.

499 total.

By Wallace

• A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life — David Foster Wallace
• A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again — David Foster Wallace
• All That — David Foster Wallace
• Authority and American Usage — David Foster Wallace
• Big Red Son — David Foster Wallace
• Borges on the Couch — David Foster Wallace
• Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (the title-story cycle) — David Foster Wallace
• Certainly the End of Something or Other, One Would Sort of Have to Think — David Foster Wallace
• Consider the Lobster — David Foster Wallace
• David Lynch Keeps His Head — David Foster Wallace
• Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley — David Foster Wallace
• E Unibus Pluram — David Foster Wallace (Review of Contemporary Fiction 13.2, Summer 1993; rev. in A Supposedly Fun Thing, 1997)
• F/X Porn — David Foster Wallace
• Federer Both Flesh and Not — David Foster Wallace
• Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young — David Foster Wallace
• Getting Away from Already Pretty Much Being Away from It All — David Foster Wallace
• Girl With Curious Hair — David Foster Wallace
• Good Old Neon — David Foster Wallace
• Greatly Exaggerated — David Foster Wallace
• How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart — David Foster Wallace
• Incarnations of Burned Children — David Foster Wallace
• Joseph Frank’s Dostoevsky — David Foster Wallace
• Laughing with Kafka — David Foster Wallace
• My Appearance (\"Late Night\") — David Foster Wallace
• Nothing Happened (the Open City version of \"Signifying Nothing\") — David Foster Wallace
• Octet — David Foster Wallace
• Order and Flux in Northampton — David Foster Wallace
• Rhetoric and the Math Melodrama — David Foster Wallace
• Suicide as a Sort of Present — David Foster Wallace
• Tennis Player Michael Joyce's Professional Artistry as a Paradigm of Certain Stuff about Choice, Freedom, Limitation, Joy, Grotesquerie, and Human Completeness — David Foster Wallace
• The Broom of the System — David Foster Wallace
• The Depressed Person — David Foster Wallace
• The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress — David Foster Wallace
• The Nature of the Fun — David Foster Wallace
• The Planet Trillaphon as It Stands in Relation to the Bad Thing — David Foster Wallace
• The Suffering Channel — David Foster Wallace
• This Is Water (2005 Kenyon College Commencement Address) — David Foster Wallace
• Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way (in Girl With Curious Hair) — David Foster Wallace

Interviews

• 'A Frightening Time in America': An Interview with David Foster Wallace (Ostap Karmodi, Radio Svoboda / NYRB) — Ostap Karmodi (interviewer); David Foster Wallace (subject)
• 'Infinite Jest' Turns 30 — Hermione Hoby on WNYC's All Of It with Alison Stewart (30th-anniversary radio hour, with listener calls and texts) — Alison Stewart (host); guest Hermione Hoby
• 1458 words on a book that has more than 1000 pages (SPEAK magazine interview with David Foster Wallace) — David Foster Wallace, interviewed; SPEAK magazine (interviewer unnamed on scan)
• 30 years later, is Infinite Jest the best or the worst? — KUOW Meet Me Here anniversary panel (Jeannie Yandel with Will James, Katie Campbell, Dyer Oxley) — Jeannie Yandel (host); panelists Will James, Katie Campbell, Dyer Oxley (KUOW staff)
• A Brief (Crowd-Sourced) Interview with Michael Pietsch — Infinite Winter (2016) — Michael Pietsch (answers); Infinite Winter readers (crowd-sourced questions)
• A Conversation with David Foster Wallace — Larry McCaffery (interviewer), Review of Contemporary Fiction 13.2, Summer 1993
• A Fun Thing They'll Never Do Again: Gus Van Sant meets David Foster Wallace — Gus Van Sant (interviewer); David Foster Wallace
• A Sleek and Brilliant Monster: David Foster Wallace comes clean (Benjamin Weissman, LA Weekly Literary Supplement) — Benjamin Weissman (interviewer); David Foster Wallace (subject)
• Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace — David Lipsky (Broadway Books, 2010)
• Amy Wallace Havens on her brother — unedited radio interview (2009): the goofball brother, the first depression, and proofreading Infinite Jest by mail — Amy Wallace Havens (DFW's sister, interviewee); interviewer unnamed on tape (a public-radio host preparing a produced remembrance; identity inferred, not announced)
• An Interview with David Foster Wallace (David Wiley, Minnesota Daily A&E — full transcript) — David Wiley (interviewer); David Foster Wallace (subject)
• Bookworm phone follow-up — DFW by phone from his home in Illinois (KCRW, August 3, 2000) — Michael Silverblatt (host), guest David Foster Wallace
• Bookworm remembers David Foster Wallace — KCRW memorial re-airing of the 1996 Infinite Jest conversation (November 27, 2008) — Michael Silverblatt (host), KCRW Bookworm; interview content recorded April 1996
• Bookworm — DFW on Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (KCRW, August 12, 1999) — Michael Silverblatt (host), guest David Foster Wallace
• Bookworm: David Foster Wallace on A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again — KCRW (May 15, 1997) — Michael Silverblatt (host), guest David Foster Wallace
• Bookworm: David Foster Wallace on Infinite Jest — Michael Silverblatt (host), KCRW Bookworm, 11 April 1996
• Bookworm: John D'Agata, The Next American Essay — with a DFW reading of Ticket to the Fair (KCRW, May 8, 2003) — Michael Silverblatt (host); guest John D'Agata; recorded reading by David Foster Wallace
• Caleb Crain interviews DFW, raw cassette (Oct 17, 2003) — tape diff vs the printed Boston Globe Approaching Infinity — Caleb Crain (interviewer), David Foster Wallace
• Conversations with David Foster Wallace (Literary Conversations Series) — Stephen J. Burn (ed.); 22 interviews/profiles, 1987-2008
• D.T. Max and James Wood on David Foster Wallace (Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard) — D.T. Max & James Wood; intro by the Mahindra Center director (rendered "Steve Beal" in captions — likely Steven Biel); student readers
• DFW and David Lipsky — original road-trip tape excerpt (1996) — David Lipsky (interviewer), Rolling Stone assignment tapes, March 1996
• DFW and Richard Powers Q&A, moderated by John O'Brien (December 2000) — Lannan Foundation event, Santa Fe (the conversation half; same evening as the Pale King-fragments reading), December 2000
• DFW in conversation with David Kipen — City Arts & Lectures, San Francisco (June 17, 2004) — David Kipen (host; ASR garbles the surname as Kippen/Kiffin), guest David Foster Wallace
• DFW interview and reading from Oblivion — Wisconsin Public Radio (2004) — Wisconsin Public Radio / To the Best of Our Knowledge, 2004
• DFW interviewed by Terry Gross — Fresh Air, NPR (March 5, 1997) — Terry Gross (host), guest David Foster Wallace
• DFW on A Supposedly Fun Thing — Wisconsin Public Radio (April 1997) — Wisconsin Public Radio live audience show (banter and a "quiz element" suggest Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know), April 1997
• DFW on Brief Interviews with Hideous Men — 1999 radio interview attributed to Bill Thompson's Eye on Books, heard via a late-2008 memorial rebroadcast — unidentified host, attributed to Bill Thompson (Eye on Books); guest David Foster Wallace
• DFW on Consider the Lobster — Bookworm with Michael Silverblatt, KCRW (March 2, 2006) — Michael Silverblatt (host; the transcription garbles the surname as Slaughterblatt in the intro), guest David Foster Wallace
• DFW on Infinite Jest — To the Best of Our Knowledge, Wisconsin Public Radio (October 20, 1996) — Judith Strasser (interviewer, credited on tape), Jim Fleming (host); guest David Foster Wallace
• DFW on Roger Federer — NPR Weekend Edition Saturday (August 19, 2006) — NPR Weekend Edition Saturday host (unnamed on tape), guest David Foster Wallace
• DFW on Talk of the Nation with Neal Conan — NPR, Everything and More segment (Oct 13, 2003) — Neal Conan (host; never named on tape — attribution from manifest), guest David Foster Wallace
• DFW on Whad'Ya Know? with Michael Feldman — PRI, Madison WI (April 5, 1997) — Michael Feldman (host), guest David Foster Wallace
• DFW on genteelisms and puff words — LawProse clip (Bryan A. Garner interview footage) — Bryan A. Garner (interviewer, inferred — see Attribution and dating); guest David Foster Wallace
• DFW on his Seven-Night Caribbean Cruise — Wisconsin Public Radio (1997) — Steve Paulson (interviewer), Wisconsin Public Radio (To the Best of Our Knowledge), 1997
• DFW reads "The Soul Is Not a Smithy" + Q&A (Free Library of Philadelphia, June 2004) — David Foster Wallace, Free Library of Philadelphia author event, June 2004
• DFW reads Big Red Son (audiobook recording) — David Foster Wallace, reading the 1998 AVN Expo essay (Consider the Lobster audiobook)
• DFW reads Consider the Lobster (audiobook recording) — David Foster Wallace, reading the 2003 Maine Lobster Festival essay (Consider the Lobster audiobook)
• DFW reads The View from Mrs. Thompson's (Hammer Museum, January 2006) — David Foster Wallace, Hammer Museum (UCLA) podcast reading, January 2006
• DFW reads Up, Simba! (McCain's Promise) on This American Life (2000) — David Foster Wallace / This American Life (Ira Glass framing), 2000
• DFW reads from The Pale King and Incarnations of Burned Children (December 2000) — David Foster Wallace, Lannan Foundation reading, Santa Fe, December 2000
• DFW reads from Ticket to the Fair (anthology reading, ~2003) — David Foster Wallace, short anthology-event reading (~2003; Harper's piece from 1994)
• DFW visits Italy (Le Conversazioni, Capri, 2006) — David Foster Wallace, audience Q&A excerpts, Le Conversazioni festival, Capri, June 2006
• DFW with Christopher Lydon — The Connection, WBUR Boston (February 21, 1996; the rediscovered 'lost' interview) — Christopher Lydon (host; ASR garbles the surname as Leighton), guest David Foster Wallace; 2014 reissue page by Kunal Jasty and Max Larkin
• David Foster Wallace discusses Consumerism (2003, ZDF cut) — ZDF (German public TV) interview, 2003 — edited excerpt
• David Foster Wallace discusses Popular Entertainment (2003, ZDF cut) — ZDF (German public TV) interview, 2003 — edited excerpt
• David Foster Wallace discusses Pretentious Language (Garner session clip, ~2006 — circulates mislabeled as a ZDF-2003 cut) — Bryan A. Garner filmed conversation, Los Angeles; the YouTube upload labels it a 2003 ZDF-session clip
• David Foster Wallace in the #MeToo Era: A Conversation with Clare Hayes-Brady (Steve Paulson, Los Angeles Review of Books) — Clare Hayes-Brady (interviewee); Steve Paulson (interviewer)
• David Foster Wallace interview on Charlie Rose (1997) — Charlie Rose (host), PBS, March 1997
• David Foster Wallace on Infinite Jest and Brief Interviews, with Lewis Frumkes (August 1999) — Lewis Frumkes (host), The Lewis Frumkes Show, August 1999
• David Foster Wallace on Infinite Jest with Leonard Lopate (March 1996) — Leonard Lopate (host), WNYC "New York and Company", March 1996
• David Foster Wallace on Responsibility and Maturity (2003, ZDF cut) — ZDF (German public TV) interview, 2003 — edited excerpt
• David Foster Wallace on the Marketing of Writing (2003, ZDF cut) — ZDF (German public TV) interview, 2003 — edited excerpt
• David Foster Wallace unedited interview (German TV / ZDF, 2003) — ZDF (German public TV) interviewer, recorded November 2002/2003, aired 2003
• David Foster Wallace — The Last Interview, Expanded with New Introduction — David Streitfeld (ed.); 10 interviews 1987-2008 + Streitfeld introduction
• David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen and Mark Leyner on Charlie Rose (1996) — Charlie Rose (host), PBS, 1996; panel with Jonathan Franzen and Mark Leyner
• Exclusive: New (Fan-Designed) Cover of 20th Anniversary Edition of Infinite Jest (Plus a Brief Interview with Michael Pietsch) — The Millions — The Millions (Editor); Michael Pietsch (answers)
• Francis Kerline : « Cette traduction de David Foster Wallace m’a presque rendu fou » — Francis Kerline (interview, Books magazine n° 69)
• Gerry Howard on Discovering, Editing, and Hatching David Foster Wallace — Leon Neyfakh (interviewing Gerry Howard)
• I'm Hannah Smart who wrote the LARB \"Mister Squishy\" essay. I'm developing a DFW biography. AMA
• Ich habe Angst vor uns (Miriam Böttger, Die Welt — Kultur, 3 Jan 2003) — Miriam Böttger (interviewer); David Foster Wallace (subject)
• Infinite Jest Around the World: Translating DFW's 1,000 Page Mega-Novel — Veronica Esposito
• Infinite Jest Editor Michael Pietsch of Little, Brown on David Foster Wallace — New York Observer — Leon Neyfakh (New York Observer); Michael Pietsch (quoted)
• Infinite Jester (Tom Laskin, Isthmus, Feb 7 1997) — Tom Laskin (author, Isthmus); David Foster Wallace (subject)
• Infinite Winter's crowd-sourced Michael Pietsch interview (2016) — EXCERPT ONLY (Howling Fantods reproduction) — Michael Pietsch (answers); Infinite Winter readers (crowd-sourced questions); excerpt reproduced by The Howling Fantods
• Inside The New York Times Book Review: 'Infinite Jest' at 20 (Pietsch + Bissell) — Pamela Paul (host), with Michael Pietsch and Tom Bissell
• KUT Forum: David Foster Wallace, Essayist and Novelist (1997) — KUT Radio / Longhorn Radio Network, University of Texas at Austin (host not named on tape; the credits name the program's producer-host, ASR-garbled)
• Karen Green: 'David Foster Wallace was so tender' — Tim Adams
• Literary star, out of the limelight (Paul Brownfield, Los Angeles Times) — Paul Brownfield, Times Staff Writer; David Foster Wallace (subject)
• Live with David Foster Wallace, Author of Infinite Jest (WORD e-zine live chat) — David Foster Wallace (typed), with ~15 chat participants; hosted by Word.com "The Habit"
• Mark Leyner Remembers David Foster Wallace: 'He Was the Opposite of an Arrogant, Swaggering Person' — Matt Haber (interviewing Mark Leyner)
• QPB Talks to David Foster Wallace (QPB Review, Sept 1996) — David Stanton (interviewer, QPB Review); David Foster Wallace (subject)
• Quack This Way: David Foster Wallace & Bryan A. Garner Talk Language and Writing — Bryan A. Garner & David Foster Wallace
• Remembering David Foster Wallace — To the Best of Our Knowledge special hour (WPR/PRI, 2009) — Jim Fleming (host); segments by Steve Paulson and Anne Strainchamps; guests D.T. Max, David Lipsky, Michael Pietsch, Amy Wallace-Havens; commentaries by Laura Miller and Lev Grossman; reading by Carrie Coon
• Rereading David Foster Wallace — New Yorker Festival panel (D.T. Max, Mary Karr, Dana Spiotta, Mark Costello, Deborah Treisman) (New Yorker Festival panel) — D.T. Max (moderator); panelists Mary Karr, Dana Spiotta, Mark Costello, Deborah Treisman
• Steven Moore (Full Stop interview) — Andrew Mitchell Davenport (interviewing Steven Moore)
• Tak samo, ale inaczej — Zofia Zaleska (interviewer); Jolanta Kozak (interviewee/translator)
• Talking With... David Foster Wallace (Oregon Voice, April 1998 — full transcript) — Chris O'Connor and Rob Elder (interviewers); David Foster Wallace (subject)
• Teach Me Good: Clare Hayes-Brady teaches Infinite Jest and David Foster Wallace to two comedians (recorded ~13 Feb 2021) — Hosts Art (ASR "Art Kai") & Fernando (New York comedians); guest Clare Hayes-Brady, University College Dublin
• The Great Concavity Ep. 10: Nick Maniatis of The Howling Fantods — 19 years of the DFW web (Feb 2016, around IJ's 20th anniversary) — Matt Bucher & Dave Laird (hosts; ASR renders Bucher as "Matt Booker"); guest Nick Maniatis
• The Great Concavity Ep. 18: Sean Pratt — narrating the Infinite Jest audiobook (56 hours, the endnotes controversy, and tempo as design) — Dave Laird & Matt Bucher (hosts; ASR renders Bucher as "Matt Booker"); guest Sean Pratt, narrator of the Infinite Jest audiobook (also records as Lloyd James)
• The Great Concavity Ep. 20: John Mango — depression, AA, and reading Infinite Jest sober (recorded ~October 2016) — Matt Bucher & Dave Laird (hosts; ASR renders Bucher as "Matt Booker"); guest John Mango (name as ASR renders it), writing instructor, University of Vermont
• The Great Concavity Ep. 32: Shazia Ramji — guiding three IJ group reads (Poor Yorick Summer, Sacred Jest, Ennet House), poetry and Wallace, and Gravity's Rainbow parallels (recorded ~fall 2017) — Matt Bucher & Dave Laird (hosts; ASR renders Bucher as "Matt Booker"); guest Shazia Ramji, Vancouver poet (ASR "Shazia Ramji"/"Shazzy")
• The Great Concavity Ep. 36: William Beutler & Bill Lattanzi — mapping Infinite Jest: the Infinite Atlas/Infinite Map genesis and the Boston walking tour (recorded ~early 2018) — Matt Bucher & Dave Laird (hosts; ASR renders Bucher as "Matt Booker"); guests William Beutler (Infinite Atlas; ASR "Buechler"/"Butler") and Bill Lattanzi (Boston walking tour; ASR "Atanzi"/"Latanzi"/"Lutensi")
• The Great Concavity Ep. 42: Esther J. Cepeda — annual IJ rereads, reading Wallace as a fan not a scholar, and the Wardine debate from a Latina reader's side (recorded ~early November 2018) — Matt Bucher & Dave Laird (hosts; ASR renders Bucher as "Matt Booker"); guest Esther J. Cepeda (Washington Post Writers Group syndicated columnist and public-school teacher)
• The Great Concavity Ep. 4: Corrie Baldauf on the Infinite Jest color-tab project (late 2015) — Matt Bucher & Dave Laird (hosts); guest Corrie Baldauf (ASR renders her "Corey Baldoff")
• The Great Concavity Ep. 58: Chris Via (Leaf by Leaf) — an IJ reread ten years on: purge-not-preen, the p. 31 head clue, and the big-book long game (recorded ~early 2021) — Dave Laird & Matt Bucher (hosts; ASR renders Bucher as "Matt Booker"); guest Chris Via (Leaf by Leaf booktube channel)
• The Great Concavity Ep. 7: Chris Ayers on the Incandenza filmography posters and the IJ20 cover contest (Jan 2016) — Matt Bucher & Dave Laird (hosts; ASR renders Bucher as "Matt Booker"); guest Chris Ayers (Poor Yorick Entertainment; ASR renders the blog "Poor York Entertainment")
• The Great Concavity Ep. 8: D.T. Max on biography, the letters, and how Infinite Jest got assembled (Jan 18, 2016) — Matt Bucher & Dave Laird (hosts; ASR renders Bucher as "Matt Booker"); guest D.T. Max
• The Great Concavity Ep. 9: Jenni Baker on Erasing Infinite — erasure poetry from every page of IJ (early 2016, Infinite Winter's opening weeks) — Matt Bucher & Dave Laird (hosts; ASR renders Bucher as "Matt Booker"); guest Jenni Baker (ASR "Jenny")
• The Grunge American Novel (Frank Bruni, The New York Times Magazine, Mar 24 1996) — Frank Bruni (author); David Foster Wallace (subject)
• The Making of Infinite Jest — Bonnie Nadell & Michael Pietsch in conversation (McNally Editions) — Kate Dwyer / McNally Editions (edited transcript; speakers Bonnie Nadell, Michael Pietsch, Sarah McNally, audience)
• The Salon Interview: David Foster Wallace — Laura Miller (Salon, 9 March 1996)
• The Usage Wars — Bryan A. Garner + DFW, The Connection (WBUR, host Judy Swallow, March 30, 2001) — Judy Swallow (host); guests David Foster Wallace, Bryan A. Garner, Ilan Stavans (third segment); five listener callers
• The infinite jester: Author David Foster Wallace's unique brand of humor a mixed blessing (Mitch Pugh, Copley News Service) — Mitch Pugh, Copley News Service (with a signed sidebar); David Foster Wallace (subject)
• To the Best of Our Knowledge re-airs the 2004 Oblivion conversation — WPR rebroadcast segment (2015, The End of the Tour occasion) — To the Best of Our Knowledge (Wisconsin Public Radio); interview content Steve Paulson with David Foster Wallace, 2004
• Traduire « Infinite Jest » — Théophile Pillault (VICE France) — interview with Francis Kerline
• Tradurre \"Infinite Jest\" – Giulia Bocchio intervista Edoardo Nesi — Edoardo Nesi (interview by Giulia Bocchio)
• Ulrich Blumenbach zu verschiedenen Übersetzungen einer Passage aus Infinite Jest — Ulrich Blumenbach (essay + interview; interview conducted by Alexander Rudolfi; republished on mokita.de by Fabian Neidhardt)
• Wallace reappears to promote essays (William R. Wineke, Wisconsin State Journal, Feb 23 1997) — William R. Wineke (author, Wisconsin State Journal); David Foster Wallace (subject)
• Wie man David Foster Wallace übersetzt: Ulrich Blumenbach im Gespräch — Ulrich Blumenbach (interview by Frank Rudkoffsky)
• ZEIT Online interview with DFW (January 2007) — The Sound of Thought (Howling Fantods English back-translation) — unnamed ZEIT Online interviewer; English back-translation by Stefan (surname not given) for The Howling Fantods
• Zehn Wahrheiten: Ich musste das Falsche richtig falsch übersetzen — Ulrich Blumenbach (interview by Klaus Brinkbäumer)
• «Wallace jest ponadczasowy – rozmowa z Jolantą Kozak, tłumaczką „Niewyczerpanego żartu” Davida Fostera Wallace’a» — Sebastian Rerak (Booklips.pl) — interview with Jolanta Kozak
• Αριστούργημα ετών 30: Η αλήθεια για το Infinite Jest του Ντέιβιντ Φόστερ Γουάλας — Kostas Kaltsas (interview by Theodosis Michos, NEWS 24/7)
• Обсуждая «Бесконечную шутку»: Алексей Поляринов о переводе (беседа для «Дистопии») — Сергей Лебеденко (Sergey Lebedenko) & Александра Сорокина (Alexandra Sorokina) — dystopia.me; a two-interviewer conversation with translator Alexey Polyarinov (Алексей Поляринов)
• 春风专访｜金翻译家奖俞冰夏：80后斜杠青年与华莱士的相遇 — 方涛 (Fang Tao, reporter); 俞冰夏 (Yu Bingxia, interviewee / Chinese IJ translator)

Letters, drafts & composition

• Michael Pietsch to DFW, December 22, 1994 (second-read letter + cut-suggestion list) — Michael Pietsch (typed layer); marginalia almost certainly David Foster Wallace
• Michael Pietsch: Editing Infinite Jest (Infinite Summer guest essay) — Michael Pietsch (DFW's editor at Little, Brown)
• Wallace to DeLillo, October 10, 1995 + Wallace to Pietsch, September 20, 1995 (page-proofs-era letters), with the Harrison 2006 letter and the childhood Viking Poem — David Foster Wallace (the two 1995 letters); Jim Harrison (2006 letter)

Biography & profiles

• David Foster Wallace in Recovery: An Excerpt From the New Biography — D. T. Max (The New Yorker, Page-Turner)
• Death Was Not the End: David Foster Wallace Ten Years Later — A Tribute to the Tumultuous Life and Writings of David Foster Wallace on his 57th Birthday — Hannah Smart (Middlebury College class of 2019; per site bio an amateur musician and writer; now developing a DFW biography)
• Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace — D.T. Max (Viking, 2012)
• Five Dials No. 10: Celebrating the Life and Work of David Foster Wallace 1962–2008 — Five Dials (Hamish Hamilton) — tributes by Amy Wallace-Havens, Bonnie Nadell, Gerry Howard, Colin Harrison, Michael Pietsch, Don DeLillo, Zadie Smith, George Saunders, Jonathan Franzen
• The Secret History of David Foster Wallace's Boston (BDCwire) — Ryan Walsh
• The Unfinished: David Foster Wallace's struggle to surpass "Infinite Jest" — D.T. Max (The New Yorker, 9 March 2009)

Scholarship

• 'An Anguish Become Thing': Narrative as Performance in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest — Frank Louis Cioffi
• 'Sudden Awakening to the Fact That the Mischief Is Irretrievably Done': Epiphanic Structure in Infinite Jest — Casey Michael Henry
• 'Then Out of the Rubble': The Apocalypse in David Foster Wallace's Early Fiction — Bradley J. Fest
• A Sometimes Funny Book Supposedly about Infinity: A Review of Everything and More — Michael Harris
• A discussion of Dubious Maths in Infinite Jest — Mike Strong
• Acqua in bocca, ovvero Tradurre l’infinito — Norman Gobetti
• Addiction and the Societies of Control: David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest — Jan Harris
• Addiction to Itself: Self-Consciousness in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest — Teddy Wayne
• Allard den Dulk, DFW19 keynote: The Depressed Person, B.I. #20, and Notes from Underground — Allard den Dulk (Amsterdam University College)
• American Hamlet: Shakespearean Epistemology in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest — James Jason Walsh Jr.
• An Exhaustive Essay of pages 380-442 of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest (a Preliminary Explanation/Summarization of a Preliminary Explanation/Summarization) (undergraduate individual-study essay, not peer-reviewed) — Michael Badger III
• Becoming the New Man in Post-PostModernist Fiction: Portrayals of Masculinities in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest and Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club — Andrew Steven Delfino
• Bodies in the Novel Infinite Jest — Ana Chapman, Silvia Chapman & Stephanie Cosentino
• Call it Something I Ate: language-games, addiction, and dialogic possibility in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest — Noah Raizman
• DFW19: Ethics, Freedom, Infinite Jest (ISU conference panel, 2019) — Vernon C. (philosopher; surname rendered 'Chesney'/'Sisty' by ASR) + two further speakers (a Marxist reading; a Jordan Peterson/reception talk)
• DFW19: Wallace, Wittgenstein, and Religion (ISU conference panel, 2019) — Nan [MA, religious studies, U. Chicago; surname garbled] and Michele/Michela [Italian philosophy student, surname rendered 'Irania'/'Rania'; book on Wallace announced for June 2019]; moderated by Vern C.
• Da Infinite Jest all'Infinite Scroll: David Foster Wallace nell'epoca della distrazione senza fine — Danilo Petrassi
• David Foster Wallace and New Sincerity Aesthetics: A Reply to Edward Jackson and Joel Nicholson-Roberts — Adam Kelly
• David Foster Wallace in Context — Clare Hayes-Brady (ed.); 34 contributors + introduction
• David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest: A Reader's Guide — Stephen J. Burn
• David Foster Wallace: the Death of the Author and the Birth of a Discipline — Adam Kelly
• Dialectic of Sincerity: Lionel Trilling and David Foster Wallace — Adam Kelly
• Dialogizing Postmodern Carnival: David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest — Catherine Nichols
• Getting Away From It All: The Literary Journalism of David Foster Wallace and Nietzsche's Concept of Oblivion — Joshua Roiland
• Habits, Infinite Jest and the recoveries of pragmatism — Stephen Dunne & Michael Pedersen
• Identifying Stasis in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest — Stefano Budicin (MA thesis, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 2016/17; supervisor Pia Masiero)
• In on the Joke: How Infinite Jest Represents Entertainment Addiction — Ott Abroi (BA thesis, University of Tartu, 2020; supervisor Raili Marling)
• Irony, Narcissism, and Affect: A Study of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest — Kyle Matthew Woodend (MA by Research thesis, University of Birmingham, 2018)
• La teoría literaria a comienzo del siglo XXI: post-postmodernidad en las letras estadounidenses — Gabriela Bilevich
• Leaf by Leaf at the IDFWS Conference 2023 (Gettysburg College): Lyle, LaMont Chu, and the Fact of the Cage — Chris Via (Leaf by Leaf)
• MA Thesis on Infinite Jest, metafiction, and emotion (with creative component) — Kevin McMorrow
• Making Students' Heads Throb Heartlike: David Foster Wallace's Infinitely Healing Pedagogy — Tony McMahon
• Narrative Modeling and Community Organizing in The Pale King and Infinite Jest — Andrew Warren
• On Speculation: Infinite Jest and American Fiction After Postmodernism — Chris Hager
• Players and Spectators: Entertainment and Disembodied Agency in Infinite Jest — Francesca Beaumont
• Reading IJ: Structure and Symbolism (DFW Conference, ISU, 2019 — final panel) — Emilio [surname garbled in captions; Harry Ransom Center docent] and Matt [surname rendered 'Yard'; MA, Monmouth University]
• The Crowd and the Individual: David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest and Don DeLillo's Mao II on the Place of the Novel in the Age of Television (undergraduate honors thesis, not peer-reviewed) — Alexander Chambers (BA Honors thesis, University of Michigan, 2001)
• The Eschatological Imagination: Mediating David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest — John Timothy Jacobs
• The First (and Second) Coming of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest — Tore Rye Andersen (Aarhus Universitet)
• The Great Concavity Ep. 12: David Hering — Fiction and Form, the Ransom Center drafts of IJ, and the Liverpool reading group (recorded 1 April 2016) — Matt Bucher & Dave Laird (hosts; ASR renders Bucher as "Matt Booker"); guest David Hering (ASR "David Herring"), University of Liverpool
• The Great Concavity Ep. 13: Rob Short — AA's Big Book, William James, and Wallace as recovering theory addict (April 2016) — Matt Bucher & Dave Laird (hosts; ASR renders Bucher as "Matt Booker"); guest Rob Short (PhD candidate, University of Florida)
• The Great Concavity Ep. 21: Clare Hayes-Brady — The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace, resistance to closure, and Wallace on gender (recorded ~November 2016) — Matt Bucher & Dave Laird (hosts; ASR renders Bucher as "Matt Booker"); guest Clare Hayes-Brady, University College Dublin (ASR "claire hayes brady")
• The Great Concavity Ep. 26: Jeff Severs — Balancing Books, axiology, and Wallace's fictions of value (recorded Oscar night, Feb 26 2017) — Matt Bucher & Dave Laird (hosts; ASR renders Bucher as "Matt Booker"); guest Jeff Severs, UBC Vancouver (ASR "Jeff Seavers")
• The Great Concavity Ep. 27: Jill Braithwaite — Infinite Jest and Paul Tillich: sin as estrangement, salvation as existential process (recorded ~mid-March 2017) — Matt Bucher & Dave Laird (hosts; ASR renders Bucher as "Matt Booker"); guest Jill Braithwaite, Minneapolis (children's-publishing professional; MA theology & the arts)
• The Great Concavity Ep. 33: Allard den Dulk — Existentialist Engagement in Wallace, Eggers & Foer; sincerity vs. authenticity, AA's seriousness, and corresponding with Wallace (recorded in Austin, ~late 2017) — Matt Bucher & Dave Laird (hosts; ASR renders Bucher as "Matt Booker"); guest Allard den Dulk, VU Amsterdam / Amsterdam University College (ASR "Allerton Dulk"/"Dendalk")
• The Great Concavity Ep. 40: Greg Carlisle — Elegant Complexity, the shadowed-circle structure, and answering IJ's big questions with Occam's razor (recorded ~mid-September 2018) — Matt Bucher & Dave Laird (hosts; ASR renders Bucher as "Matt Booker"); guest Greg Carlisle, Morehead State University (ASR "Moorhead"/"Moritz State")
• The Great Concavity Ep. 46: Marshall Boswell — The Wallace Effect, the anxiety of Wallace's influence, and the anti-Wallace backlash (recorded ~February 2019) — Matt Bucher & Dave Laird (hosts; ASR renders Bucher as "Matt Booker"); guest Marshall Boswell, Rhodes College (ASR renders Stephen Burn as "Stephen Byrne"/"Burns")
• The Language of Landscape, Information, and Disturbance: An Existential Look at the Literary Techniques of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (undergraduate paper, not peer-reviewed) — Timothy Henry (University of Richmond, undergraduate paper)
• The Limits of the Infinite: The Use of Alcoholics Anonymous in Infinite Jest as a Narrative Solution after Postmodernism — Brooks Daverman
• The Quest for Infinite Jest: An Inquiry into the Encyclopedic and Postmodernist Nature of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest — Toon Theuwis
• The Work of Play in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest — Mark Bresnan
• The World of David Foster Wallace — Lee Konstantinou
• Theorising David Foster Wallace's Toxic Postmodern Spaces — David Hering
• Transcendence, fast and slow: Infinite Jest and the dynamics of a cultural splash — Thomas Medvetz (Dept. of Sociology, UC San Diego)
• Where's Wallace? Infinite Jest's Return to Reality — John Smilges
• White Guys: Questioning Infinite Jest's New Sincerity — Edward Jackson and Joel Nicholson-Roberts
• \"At the edges of perception\": William Gaddis and the encyclopedic novel from Joyce to David Foster Wallace — Stephen J. Burn
• \"I Am in Here\": Fragmentation and the Individual in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest — Travis W. Stern

Essays & criticism

• 30 Years On, Infinite Jest Offers a Map to an Increasingly Chaotic World (AnOther Magazine) — AnOther Magazine (anothermag.com; byline not captured in extraction)
• A Voyeur in the Archives — Max Ross
• Archived Soul — Justine Tal Goldberg
• Crafty David Foster Wallace — Anelise Chen
• David Foster Wallace Tried to Warn Us About These Eight Things — Ted Gioia
• 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 — Nora Krug (column); David Foster Wallace (quoted letters, postcard, holiday card)
• Diary: David's Presence (Gale Walden, London Review of Books) — Gale Walden
• Finding a Way In: On Michelle Zauner and the Cultural History of Infinite Jest's Forewords (Ryan Lackey, Cleveland Review of Books) — Ryan Lackey
• Four Theories Toward the Timeless Brilliance of Infinite Jest — Tom Bissell (Literary Hub, 21 March 2018; excerpted from Magic Hours, Vintage 2018)
• Franz Kafka & Infinite Jest — OCD in Literature (Readers of the Lost Art) — Dr. Paul Anthony Taylor ("recovering academic", Readers of the Lost Art)
• Friday essay: weirdly old-fashioned and wildly uneven — David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest at 30 — Julian Murphet (The Conversation, 22 January 2026)
• Graça Infinita no Brasil (uma história pessoal) — Caetano Waldrigues Galindo
• Infinite Jest Extraction — Matt Lakeman
• Infinite Proofs: The Effects of Mathematics on David Foster Wallace (Los Angeles Review of Books) — Los Angeles Review of Books (byline not captured in the extracted body)
• Is it OK to read Infinite Jest in public? Why the internet hates 'performative reading' (Alaina Demopoulos, The Guardian) — Alaina Demopoulos
• My Brainrot Demands Slop: Infinite Jest and GenAI — Matt Wiese
• Never mind the lit-bros: Infinite Jest is a true classic at 30 — Michelle Zauner
• Nothing Ever Happens: \"Mister Squishy\" and the Year of the Sentence Diagram — Hannah Smart (Los Angeles Review of Books)
• Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present — Mark Costello & David Foster Wallace (2013 edition with new Costello preface)
• Suicide's Note: An Annual (Mary Karr, Poetry magazine) — Mary Karr
• What's So Funny About Infinite Jest? (Lora Kelley, The Paris Review) — Lora Kelley
• Дэвид Фостер Уоллес, «Бесконечная шутка» — Алексей Поляринов, три поста в LiveJournal (рецензия + два релиза фан-перевода, 2014–2016) — Алексей Поляринов (Alexey Polyarinov) — co-translator of the Russian Infinite Jest; three posts on his personal LiveJournal (polyarinov.livejournal.com)
• ‘Infinite Jest’ Has Turned Thirty — Hermione Hoby

Reviews & reception

• Books of The Times: A Country Dying of Laughter. In 1,079 Pages. — Michiko Kakutani
• David Foster Wallace on the Rise and Fall of the Videophone — declineofscarcity.com (uncredited site editor)
• David Foster Wallace! — Chad Harbach
• David Foster Wallace, 'Infinite Jest' And Lessons In Empathy — Qainat Khan
• Het vuur van David Foster Wallace herontdekt — Toon Theuwis
• History of Literature Ep. 181: David Foster Wallace Part 2 — the essays, Broom of the System, Mary Karr, and The Pale King (everything except Infinite Jest) — Jack Wilson (host); Mike Palindrome (guest host, president of the Literature Supporters Club)
• History of Literature Ep. 271: Infinite Jest — Mike Palindrome's solo lay-reader tour (three plots, Boston AA, the endnotes) — Jack Wilson (host); Mike Palindrome (guest host, president of the Literature Supporters Club)
• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace — Ted Gioia
• L'infinie comédie et la tâche ingrate du traducteur — Spirale (Montréal)
• Mister Squishy, c'est moi: David Foster Wallace's Oblivion — Kiki Benzon
• Review of Karl Plank, The Fact of the Cage: Reading and Redemption in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest — Scott Annett
• Slate Audio Book Club: Infinite Jest — Roiphe, Patterson, and Surowiecki on the mess, the design, and the sadness (recorded ~March 2009) — Katie Roiphe (moderator; ASR "Katie Roife"), Troy Patterson (Slate TV critic), James Surowiecki (The New Yorker; ASR "Jim Serwicky"/"Czerwicky"); framed by announcer Dale Willman
• The Best Mind of His Generation — A. O. Scott
• The Panic of Influence — A. O. Scott
• The Rewriting of David Foster Wallace — Christian Lorentzen
• Three Guardian DFW pieces: Leith's 'IJ at 20' explainer, D.T. Max contra St. Dave, Colin Barrett's 'My Hero' — Sam Leith; D.T. Max; Colin Barrett
• Too Much Information — John Jeremiah Sullivan
• Well, duh — Dale Peck
• Why The End of the Tour isn't really about my friend David Foster Wallace — Glenn Kenny
• «L'Infinie Comédie»: pourquoi il faut lire David Foster Wallace — Slate.fr

Guides & reference

• A Hardly Exhaustive But Still Interesting Look at the Differences Between the Infinite Jest Galleys and First Printing — Don (DFW Words blog)
• A Reader's Companion to Infinite Jest — William C. Dowling & Robert H. Bell
• A note to readers new to Infinite Jest — Edwin Turner (Biblioklept)
• Big Book Challenge 2020: Intro to Infinite Jest, Parts 1-4 (Michael O'Brien)
• David Foster Wallace Wiki — Infinite Jest (page-by-page annotations)
• David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest: A Reader's Guide (2nd edition) — Stephen J. Burn
• ENGLISH 4615/5615: Text in Context — Infinite Jest (course syllabus) — Gerry Canavan
• Greg Carlisle on the MC Lars Podcast (Episode 32) — Greg Carlisle (Elegant Complexity), interviewed by MC Lars (Andrew Nielsen)
• HRC finding aids — David Foster Wallace archive container maps — Harry Ransom Center (finding aid for the DFW Papers created by Stephen Cooper, 2010, and Jenn Shapland, 2012)
• 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 — Benjamin McEvoy (Hardcore Literature book club; solo lecture, no guests)
• Hardcore Literature IJ lecture III: The Map is Not the Territory (pages 489–795) — Benjamin McEvoy (Hardcore Literature book club; solo lecture, no guests)
• How to Read Infinite Jest (Benjamin McEvoy) — Benjamin McEvoy (Hardcore Literature Book Club)
• How to Read Infinite Jest (Infinite Summer) — Matt Bucher, with Nick Maniatis and Kathleen Fitzpatrick
• How to Read Infinite Jest (Write Conscious) — Ian [surname garbled in captions], Write Conscious channel
• IJ Lecture IV: The Year of Glad (Hardcore Literature) — the wraith orchestrates, Hal wraith-dosed with DMZ (and maybe shown the film), the too-late head-dig, and the AFR-victory missing year (pp. 795–end) — Benjamin McEvoy (Hardcore Literature book club; solo lecture, no guests)
• INFINITE JEST by David Foster Wallace (Leaf by Leaf) — Chris Via (Leaf by Leaf)
• Infinite Atlas / Infinite Boston (Infinite Atlas Project) — William Beutler
• Infinite Jest Section Notes (dfw.neocities.org) — anonymous (dfw.neocities.org)
• Infinite Jest and the Endless American Ego (Lawrence Debbs's Booklist) — Lawrence Debbs (Booklist channel)
• Infinite Jest character diagram (poster) — Sam Potts
• Infinite Jest chronology — Subsidized Time and chronological reading order
• Infinite Jest detailed timeline (dfw.neocities.org) — anonymous (dfw.neocities.org)
• Infinite Jest visual materials (fan & scholarly images collection) — various (Swinehart, Ayers, Beutler, Bittle, Boston Globe, et al.; blog curation by Jane Topping)
• Infinite Jest's Typographical Circles — The Howling Fantods (Nick Maniatis), 30 October 2015
• Infinite Jest: To Be, or Not to Be (David Foster Wallace Lecture I) — Hardcore Literature lecture series, ep. I of IV, pages 1–233 — Benjamin McEvoy (Hardcore Literature book club; solo lecture, no guests)
• Infinite Jest: a scene-by-scene guide — (orig. an O'Neill, SUNY Dutchess, by 2011); re-hosted by Biblioklept
• Infinite Notes — co-(re)-reading notes for Infinite Jest — Rob Friesel (founddrama) & collaborators (incl. Robin Neumann), 2012–2017; Robin Stammer (fork/republish + additions), 2026
• Infinite Summer 2009 — guest essays, guide posts, and roundtables (collection) — various (Infinite Summer, ed. Matthew Baldwin)
• Kathleen Fitzpatrick: On Teaching Infinite Jest (Infinite Summer guest essay) — Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Pomona College, DFW's colleague)
• LitCharts: Infinite Jest (study guide) — Indiana Seresin (LitCharts)
• Mistakes Corrected in the 20th Anniversary Edition of Infinite Jest (And Some That Weren't) — Don (DFW Words blog)
• Notes on Infinite Jest — Evan Siegel
• Print companions — Carlisle's Elegant Complexity and Burn's Reader's Guide — Greg Carlisle; Stephen J. Burn
• The First Draft Version of Infinite Jest — Steven Moore
• The Howling Fantods — Infinite Jest section — Nick Maniatis (site admin)
• There Are Exactly Two Mistakes In Infinite Jest — Don (DFW Words blog)
• Words David Foster Wallace Circled in His Dictionary That Were Used in Infinite Jest (And Where They Appear) — Don (DFW Words blog)

Fan theory

• Aaron Swartz was wrong: a new explanation for things (an online forum)
• DeLillo's Americana: A Pre-DFW David Foster Wallace Novel — Don (DFW Words blog)
• DeLillo, DFW, and Places of Mortal Drama — The Ambiguities (anonymous archivist-blogger, then at Duke University Libraries)
• Deep dives on the ending? (an online forum itemized Swartz critique)
• Endings II: The Annulation-Text — Jeffrey Paris (Infinite Tasks of Philosophy)
• 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 — Jesse D. (host; surname ASR-uncertain, heard as ~"Dram") + Hannah Smart (guest)
• I Hate Infinite Jest ep. XXXII (pp. 938–981, the end) — guest Tim Eastwood: the ending-theories finale — the Lyle-toothbrush DMZ walkthrough, the single-quote narrator argument, and the Marathe ER identification
• IJ Book Club Ep. 02: Are they addicted to the process, the secrecy, or the drug? — early-pages session, Orin's phone call through the pump room — IJ Book Club panel, early-season Zoom roster — heard first names: Jamie (lead host, best-effort), Liz (club founder), Isaac, Erica, Mo/Muhammad, Jack (greeted as possibly new; no diarization, so all attributions below are contextual best-effort)
• 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 panel, season-1 roster — lead host (James per ijbc-ep14 continuity; never named on this tape) plus Jaime, Sasha, Erica, Muhammad (first-time reader, joins mid-session), Jack, and possibly a Tom; an Aaron is also heard inside a reported text exchange (plausibly a panelist's own name; unresolved). First names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so the roster and all per-speaker attribution below are best-effort.
• IJ Book Club Ep. 04: Hatred of the work is just part of the work — Schtitt & Mario, Tiny Ewell, the first Marathe–Steeply desert section, and the ETA locker room (pp. ~79–121) — IJ Book Club panel, early-season roster — Jamie (lead host; named on this tape, in his own anecdote and in the closing thank-yous), Jack, Sasha, Muhammad, Erica, Liz (greeted at the top, apparently does not stay); an Andres is possibly thanked at [01:35] (uncertain). First names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so all per-speaker attribution below is contextual best-effort.
• IJ Book Club Ep. 05: Stop her! She stole my heart! — Mario and the U.S.S. Millicent Kent through Helen Steeply's Moment article (pp. ~121–144) — IJ Book Club panel, early-season Zoom roster — heard first names: lead host (unnamed on tape), Liz (joining from Germany), Sasha, Muhammad, and a member heard variously as Georgio/Georgia/Jojo (working guess Giorgio; Italian-TV references on tape). First names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so all per-speaker attribution below is contextual best-effort.
• IJ Book Club Ep. 06: Potential May Be Worse Than None, Jim — anti-ONAN list, videophony worked at length, Pemulis's urine economy, the 1960 garage monologue (pp. ~144–172) — IJ Book Club panel — Jamie (lead) plus Jaime, Erica, Muhammad, and Jack, with Liz opening (first names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• IJ Book Club Ep. 07: Who's There? — the chapter-one catch-up session (pp. 3–32 + the garage postscript): I-am vs who's-there, the conversationalist as reverse interrogation, Brando in the family tree — IJ Book Club — Jamie (lead) with Liz joining from Germany, two voices only this session (first names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• IJ Book Club Ep. 08: When does routine become ritual? — the Feral Prodigy film, the Ennet House drop-in transcripts, and the Madame Psychosis broadcast scene (pp. ~170–193, archive-derived) — IJ Book Club panel — Jamie (lead) plus Muhammad and Jaime (first names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• IJ Book Club Ep. 09: All good parties have a line for the bathroom — Ennet House grounds, the halfway-house wisdom list, tattoos, DMZ logistics, and Joelle's last party (from p. ~193, page ref ASR-derived) — IJ Book Club panel — Jamie (lead host; addressed on tape as Jamie and once as Jimmy) plus Kevin (new member, first appearance), Erica, Liz (addressed, presence probable), and at least one further recurring voice; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort
• IJ Book Club Ep. 10: Your Angle of Incidence to the Sun — Joelle's bathroom, Enfield, the 5-Nov Orin call (scene 064) worked hard (the murder theory in full), Port Washington (pp. ~219–270) — IJ Book Club panel — Jamie (lead), with Kevin the only other panelist addressed by name on this tape and a mentioned Liz (first names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• IJ Book Club Ep. 12: Cattle Ranching East of Atlantic City — the Ennet House introduction worked (pp. ~270–283): narrator fingerprints, the ETA/AA training-wheels mirror, the Lenz/Fackelmann rhyme — IJ Book Club panel — Jamie (lead) plus Jaime, Kevin, and Erica (first names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• IJ Book Club Ep. 13: Separatism and Return — Orin's backstory reappraised, Poor Tony's seizure, endnote 110 begun (pp. ~283–306 + n.110): the light inventory and the lightless last sentence — IJ Book Club panel — Jamie (lead) plus Kevin and Jaime (first names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• IJ Book Club Ep. 15: Quick question, Mike — Is the map the territory? — the shortest Marathe/Steeply interlude (p. ~317), then Eschaton whole (the I-Day debacle + n. 123) — IJ Book Club panel — Jamie (lead) plus Kevin, Jaime (ASR renders her as Hime), and Erica (first names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• IJ Book Club Ep. 16: You can't get drunk and you can't get sober — the White Flag / Boston AA chapter (pp. ~343–379) — IJ Book Club panel — lead host (Jamie) plus Kevin, Jaime, and Erica (first names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• IJ Book Club Ep. 17: Reinventing Government and History — the ONANtiad session (pp. ~375–407 + n.145): Luria authored experialism, found drama as critic-troll, the wraith skeptic holds — IJ Book Club panel — Jamie (lead) plus Kevin and Jaime (first names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• IJ Book Club Ep. 18: Not Quite Strictly Sober — Clipperton, the advertising essay, the long Marathe/Steeply night (pp. ~407–442): the lexical-fingerprint method arrives — IJ Book Club panel — Jamie (lead) plus Kevin, Erica, Jaime, and Darren joining late (first names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• IJ Book Club Ep. 19: Silent and Dim and the Same Temperature He Is — Gately's home life, the P-terminals, the MF-cup climax (pp. ~438–480): the in-utero ending reading — IJ Book Club panel — Jamie (lead) plus Kevin, Darren, and Jaime (first names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• 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 panel — Jamie (lead) plus Kevin and Jaime (first names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• IJ Book Club Ep. 21 (S2 opener): Diddle Check? — the blue waiting room, the surprise urine test, and the Marathe/Steeply dawn (pp. ~508–~530) — IJ Book Club panel — Jamie (lead) plus Kevin and Jaime (first names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• IJ Book Club Ep. 22 (S2 Ep 2): The Back-Door Slip — the government-side samizdat briefing, the Avril/Wayne tableau, Lenz & Green, the hand-model scene with endnote 234, and Arslanian's fusion lecture (pp. ~548–575) — IJ Book Club panel — Jamie (lead) plus Kevin and Jaime (first names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• IJ Book Club Ep. 24 (S2 Ep 4): Shot in Sobriety — live close-read of the Ennet House shootout and the engineer snatch (pp. ~593–620s) — IJ Book Club panel — Jamie (lead) plus Kevin, Erica, and a fourth voice (likely Jaime) — first names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort
• IJ Book Club Ep. 26 (S2 Ep 6): The Founder Let You Guys on the Grounds — the Hal–Stice exhibition as the book's Mousetrap, the narrator's axe against Steeply, the Avril blind spot, the Bain letters (pp. ~651–673) — IJ Book Club panel — Jamie (lead) plus Kevin; Erica absent (ailing cat), Jaime teased as maybe rolling in from Chile, correspondent Tim E. absent but his notes read on-air (first names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• IJ Book Club Ep. 28 (S2 Ep 8): Ever felt like PT Krause, but looked like PT Krause? — Poor Tony resurrected, the anhedonia core, and the wraith learns where the DMZ is (pp. ~689–706) — IJ Book Club panel — Jamie (lead) with Kevin and Tim (first names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• IJ Book Club Ep. 32 (S2 Ep 12): Novocain for the Soul — Marathe at Ennet, Mario's documentary night, and three conversations that aren't (pp. ~746–769) — IJ Book Club panel — Jamie (lead) and Kevin only this session (a two-hander; first names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort between the two voices)
• IJ Book Club Ep. 33 (S2 Ep 13): Hey Hal? — the bedside confession, the meetings hunt, footnote country (the fake equation, the Tenuate swap), and the Molly Notkin technical interview (pp. ~782–808) — IJ Book Club panel — Jamie (lead), Kevin, and Tim from the top; Jaime joins minutes in and Erica ~31 minutes in (first names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort across five voices)
• IJ Book Club Ep. 34 (feed-titled S2 Ep 4, in practice the season-2 finale): Kevin cries for all of us — Pemulis's dismissal (endnote 332) and Hal's Inner-Infant meeting (pp. ~795–808) — IJ Book Club panel — Jamie (lead), Tim, Erica, and Kevin, with Jaime joining a few minutes in (first names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort; Erica is greeted at the open but no line is confidently hers)
• 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 panel — Jamie (lead), Kevin, Tim, and Jaime (first names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort across four voices; no Erica this session)
• IJ Book Club Ep. 36 (S3 Ep 2): A Garden Variety Wraith — live close-read of the first full wraith scene (pp. ~827–836) — IJ Book Club panel — lead host plus Kevin, Jamie, and Tim (first names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• IJ Book Club Ep. 37 (S3 Ep 3): Wait — the wraith's confession, Gately's Mrs. Waite/death dreams, the mirror-bus plan, Hal's first-person return (pp. ~832–848) — IJ Book Club panel — Jamie (lead) plus Kevin and Tim (first names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• IJ Book Club Ep. 38 (S3 Ep 4 by feed position): Full of the sound and fury... — the off-the-board roadmap session: the head-dig as settled fact, JOI's save-Joelle scheme, the hole-communication mechanism, and the who-is-the-plant fight (no new pages) — IJ Book Club panel — Jamie (lead) and Tim only; Kevin and Erica excused on air (first names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, but a two-voice session makes this the most reliably attributed episode in the series)
• IJ Book Club Ep. 39 (S3 Ep 5): Ablutions, eh? — the toothbrush walkthrough delivered at last: Joelle at Gately's bedside, abiding between heartbeats, and the wraith-and-Lyle DMZ dosing mechanism argued in full (pp. ~854–mid-860s) — IJ Book Club panel — Jamie (lead), Tim, and Kevin (first names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort across three voices; the opening greeting's second name-token is ASR-garbled and Kevin is first name-anchored ~36 minutes in)
• 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 panel — Jamie (lead), Tim, and Kevin (first names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort across three voices; no Erica or Jaime this session)
• IJ Book Club Ep. 41 (S3 Ep 7 by feed position): Meaning from angle of incidence redux — the narrative changes on the page: unfiltered Gately, Hal horizontal in the viewing room, the wraith's misleading account of Hal's speech, and a live three-copy punctuation hunt (pp. ~891–900) — IJ Book Club panel — Jamie (lead), Kevin, and Tim (first names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort across three voices; no Erica, no Jaime this session)
• IJ Book Club Ep. 42 (S3 Ep 8 by feed position): Harold James and Michael Matthew have a spat — Gately's football boyhood decoded (the Quo Vadis endnote, the misspelled-words file) and the Hal/Pemulis viewing-room stand-off (pp. ~902–911) — IJ Book Club panel — Jamie (lead), Tim, and Kevin (first names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort across three voices; no Erica or Jaime this session)
• IJ Book Club Ep. 43 (S3 Ep 9): In the Mind of DW Gately — live close-read of the Fackelman flashback and the two-wraiths visit (pp. ~910–933) — IJ Book Club panel — lead host (addressed on-air as Jamie) plus Tim and Kevin (first names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• IJ Book Club Ep. 44 (S3 Ep 10 by feed position): Cosgrove Watt was a pro, but he was not very good. (sic) — Fackelman's last binge as a narrator problem, the Joelle–Steeply interrogation transcript walked line by line, and Hal's toothbrush carried right past the panel (pp. ~934–945) — IJ Book Club panel — Jamie (lead), Tim, and Kevin (first names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort across three voices; no Erica or Jaime this session)
• IJ Book Club Ep. 45 (S3 Ep 11): ACCOMPLICE! — the club reads the film straight through: the AIDS-twist plot walked beat by beat, the Lyle-as-Himself's-accomplice wink landing at its exact dosing-morning placement, and Hal's snowed-in excavation of his own memory (pp. ~944–950) — IJ Book Club panel — Jamie (lead), Tim, Kevin, and Erica (joins mid-session; first names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort across four voices)
• IJ Book Club Ep. 46 (S3 Ep 12): You Ain't Gonna Learn What You Don't Wanna Know — endnote-24 filmography walkthrough + Hal on the floor (pp. ~948–951) — IJ Book Club panel — Jamie (lead) plus Kevin and Tim (first names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• IJ Book Club Ep. 47 (S3 Ep 14 by feed position; untitled beyond the numbering — feed blurb: Does anyone know?): The ER woman is Marathe argued in full, the left/right handedness code, Hal's secondhand childhood on the viewing-room floor, Mikey as the last addict interlude, and the A.D.A.'s ninth step (pp. ~954–964) — IJ Book Club panel — Jamie (lead), Kevin, and Tim (first names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort across three voices; no Erica, no Jaime this session)
• IJ Book Club Ep. 48 (S3 Ep 15): Are These Idiots Still Talking? — the pre-exhibition locker room, Barry Loach and the sauna death, Orin under the tumbler (pp. ~964–972) — with the Ep. 49 (S3 Ep 15a) next-day addendum — IJ Book Club panel — lead host plus Kevin, Tim, and Jamie (first names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort); addendum is Jamie solo
• IJ Book Club Ep. 50 (S3 Ep 16, the feed's final episode: The voice down the hall was weeping like its heart would break): one page and twelve sentences of Gately's last section — the St. Elizabeth's baptism assembly, the ice-bath dispute, the dosing war reignited, and the whole novel floated as Himself's own made-up composition (pp. ~972–974) — IJ Book Club panel — Jamie (lead), Kevin, and Tim (first names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is contextual best-effort across three voices; no Erica, no Jaime)
• IJ Book Club S2 Ep. 10: The Way We Construct Meaning from Reality — the Poor Tony chase, the AFR provenance chain, Joelle's teeth dream, the finger-saw matrix (pp. ~719–736) — IJ Book Club panel — Jamie (lead), Kevin, Tim E., and Jaime arriving minutes in (Tim and Jaime meet for the first time on tape; first names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• IJ Book Club S2 Ep. 11: The Vapors — endnote 304 close-read (Struck's plagiarism, le Jeu du Prochain Train, Bernard Wayne) and Joelle cleaning at Ennet House (fn 304 + pp. ~732–~747) — IJ Book Club panel — Jamie (lead) and Kevin only this session (Tim E. not contacted; first names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• IJ Book Club S2 Ep. 3: So It Goes — the Lenz/Green walk to the dog-killing, Bruce Green's backstory, Mario's Ennet House night (pp. ~575–589) — IJ Book Club panel — Jamie (lead) and Kevin (first names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• 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) — IJ Book Club panel — Jamie (lead) plus Kevin and Jaime, with correspondent Tim E.'s email read on-air (his guest appearance failed on bandwidth; first names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• IJ Book Club S2 Ep. 7: Different Types of Sight — the match from the gallery, Matty Pemulis at the Man o' War, Hal in the viewing room (pp. ~673–~689) — IJ Book Club panel — Jamie (lead) and Kevin, with correspondent Tim E.'s emailed notes threaded throughout (his live join failed again; first names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• IJ Book Club S2 Ep. 9: That Man with the Rubber Fist — Tim E.'s system session: the toothbrush dosing theory, the Lyle/JOI reading, Joelle's CA meeting, Lenz and the scuttle chain (pp. ~706–~720) — IJ Book Club panel — Jamie (lead), Kevin, and Tim E. live
• Infinite Cast Part 104: Don in the hospital (pp. 808–818) — commentary segment (~18 min): the hero who cannot act, Tiny Ewell's uncovered memory, the gravedigger scene read out — Infinite Cast — hosts Molly O'Brien and Chris Wade (named in the public feed metadata; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• Infinite Cast Part 106: Don and the wraith (pp. 827–837) — commentary segment (~18 min): the ghost is JOI and has been haunting the whole book, the coffin-hole lore, the figurant cosmology — Infinite Cast — hosts Molly O'Brien and Chris Wade (named in the public feed metadata; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• Infinite Cast Part 107: Don's hospital nightmare (pp. 837–845) — commentary segment (~21 min): the wraith-as-narrator DM, the Entertainment as shell-opener, Gately in the crib — Infinite Cast — hosts Molly O'Brien and Chris Wade (named in the public feed metadata; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• 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 — hosts Molly O'Brien and Chris Wade (named in the public feed metadata; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• Infinite Cast Part 109: Joelle at Don's bedside (pp. 854–864) — commentary segment (~15 min): abiding as impossible present-living, the thirteenth step, and the audiobook the endnotes break — Infinite Cast — hosts Molly O'Brien and Chris Wade (named in the public feed metadata; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• Infinite Cast Part 110: Hal and Stice's frozen head (pp. 864–874) — commentary segment (~10 min): the are-you-crying hint, a figure in the bleachers, Rosencrantz-and-Guildenstern janitors — and not one word about the toothbrush — Infinite Cast — hosts Molly O'Brien and Chris Wade (named in the public feed metadata; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• Infinite Cast Part 114: Gately's football past, Hal on the floor with Pemulis (pp. 902–911) — commentary segment (~19 min): fighting your dad, the DMZ is in play vs. withdrawal, the middle endnote checked — Infinite Cast — hosts Molly O'Brien and Chris Wade (named in the public feed metadata; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• Infinite Cast Part 117: Fackelmann's a dead man (pp. 929–936) — commentary segment (~17 min): Lyle the astral projector, the answer in the skull, puzzle-readers vs vibes-readers — Infinite Cast — hosts Molly O'Brien and Chris Wade (named in the public feed metadata; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• Infinite Cast Part 118: Gately/Fackelmann, Joelle interrogated, Hal & Coyle (pp. 936–945) — commentary segment (~21 min): the Entertainment as confluence, the joke JOI actually made, giant babies everywhere — Infinite Cast — hosts Molly O'Brien and Chris Wade (named in the public feed metadata; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• Infinite Cast Part 119: Reviewing Accomplice! (pp. 945–951) — commentary segment (~19 min): the irreconcilable father, IJ as a sex-negative book, the entertainment conundrum inverted — Infinite Cast — hosts Molly O'Brien and Chris Wade (named in the public feed metadata; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• Infinite Cast Part 120: Hal considers Wayne, Mikey at AA (pp. 951–960) — commentary segment (~28 min): Hal's blankness as the first true symptom, the first-person timing check, the DMZ triad — Infinite Cast — hosts Molly O'Brien and Chris Wade (named in the public feed metadata; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• Infinite Cast Part 122: THE END (pp. 971–981) — commentary segment only: finishing the book on-air, the ending convergence, star ratings, is-IJ-good-for-boys — Infinite Cast — hosts Molly O'Brien and Chris Wade (named in the public feed metadata; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• Infinite Cast Part 123: the beginning is the end (pp. 1–17 re-read) — commentary segment (~14 min): the restraint bookends, chapter one contains everything, the mold scene as the Entertainment — Infinite Cast — hosts Molly O'Brien and Chris Wade (named in the public feed metadata; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• Infinite Cast Part 124: the Aaron Swartz essay episode (~31 min, all commentary) — the unified theory appraised, the too-late-face counter, the Entertainment realized on TikTok — Infinite Cast — hosts Molly O'Brien and Chris Wade (named in the public feed metadata; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• Infinite Cast Part 18: Lyle and the yrstruly catastrophe — commentary segment (~17 min): the slur question left open, whiplash as design, obsession as the connective tissue across class — Infinite Cast — hosts Molly O'Brien and Chris Wade (named in the public feed metadata; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• Infinite Cast Part 22: JOI Sr.'s tennis lesson — commentary segment (~17 min): the monologue as the Incandenza transmission engine, the mother-horror aphorism, a GameStop-videophony rhyme — Infinite Cast — hosts Molly O'Brien and Chris Wade (named in the public feed metadata; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• Infinite Cast Part 23: DMZ and the Feral Prodigy — commentary segment (~22 min): the be-no-one doctrine through a Drumline foil, an early mold hunch, run-on prose as brain-mimicry — Infinite Cast — hosts Molly O'Brien and Chris Wade (named in the public feed metadata; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• Infinite Cast Part 30: Joelle at Molly Notkin's party — commentary segment (~13 min): the samizdat-contents theory arrives secondhand, being-a-baby as the master fantasy, the apology owed for being born — Infinite Cast — hosts Molly O'Brien and Chris Wade (named in the public feed metadata; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• Infinite Cast Part 31: Joelle has too much fun — commentary segment (~20 min): the overdose read flatly as a suicide attempt, prose that dissociates with her, Infinite Boston, the red-flag-book taxonomy, Hamlet finally noticed — Infinite Cast — hosts Molly O'Brien and Chris Wade (named in the public feed metadata; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• Infinite Cast Part 39: Poor Tony's withdrawal — commentary segment (~21 min): dysphoria written from inside, the seizure as birth scene, tedium as instrument, the punt-broadcast catch — Infinite Cast — hosts Molly O'Brien and Chris Wade (named in the public feed metadata; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• Infinite Cast Part 41: endnote 110 pt 1 — commentary segment only (~9 min): the ONAN history dump, dialogue-as-talking-past, the narrative voice as the Incandenzas — Infinite Cast — hosts Molly O'Brien and Chris Wade (named in the public feed metadata; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• 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 — hosts Molly O'Brien and Chris Wade (named in the public feed metadata; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• 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 Cast — hosts Molly O'Brien and Chris Wade (named in the public feed metadata; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• Infinite Cast Part 45: Eschaton pt 2 with Matt Christman — commentary segment (~22 min): abstraction-then-humanity, Eschaton as recursive-maze allegory, Ingersoll's heel turn, why the book makes people mad — Infinite Cast — hosts Molly O'Brien and Chris Wade, guest Matt Christman (all named in the public feed metadata; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• Infinite Cast Part 46: the end of Eschaton (pp. 336–342) — commentary segment (~22 min): bullet-time prose, the Simone Biles / Hal connection, endnote 123 recovered — Infinite Cast — hosts Molly O'Brien and Chris Wade (named in the public feed metadata; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• Infinite Cast Part 62: Antitoi Entertainent (pp. 480–489) — commentary segment (~21 min): the annular center claim, language-failure-as-lethal, the smiley-face parallel — Infinite Cast — hosts Molly O'Brien and Chris Wade (named in the public feed metadata; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• Infinite Cast Part 63: The possibilities of annulation — commentary segment (~16 min): annulation looked up live, the annular center-point placement, addiction as the cycle that defeats generational opposition, the Man-from-Glad/Year-of-Glad noticing — Infinite Cast — hosts Molly O'Brien and Chris Wade (named in the public feed metadata; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• Infinite Cast Part 67: Marathe & Steeply, Joelle & Don (pp. 528–538) — commentary segment (~21 min): believing I-am-deformed-with-beauty, the veil as filter, UHID vs AA — Infinite Cast — hosts Molly O'Brien and Chris Wade (named in the public feed metadata; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• Infinite Cast Part 78: Don kicks some ass (pp. 610–620) — commentary segment (~22 min): the violence reveal, the legal-jeopardy stack, stars as the trauma marker and the first entertainment — Infinite Cast — hosts Molly O'Brien and Chris Wade (named in the public feed metadata; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• Infinite Cast Part 81: Steeply's father's M*A*S*H obsession — commentary segment (~16 min): obsession overblown to the point of lethality, fandom as the normalized version, the Taylor-Swift decoding culture as institutionalized coded-messages psychosis — Infinite Cast — hosts Molly O'Brien and Chris Wade (named in the public feed metadata; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• Infinite Cast Part 83: Marlon Bain dishes on Orin's past — commentary segment (~18 min): the virtue-philanthropy passage as proto-virtue-posting, cartoonish violence as tempo design, and a pinned theory that JOI was killed by Charles Tavis — Infinite Cast — hosts Molly O'Brien and Chris Wade (named in the public feed metadata; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• Infinite Cast Part 94: Joelle reflects on Orin and Jim — commentary segment (~18 min): the three-way-bond project endorsed and extended, Joelle's naming of Jim as a receding intimacy gradient, and the Mario exception to the family's failed common ground — Infinite Cast — hosts Molly O'Brien and Chris Wade (named in the public feed metadata; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• Infinite Cast Part 95: Marathe interviews at Ennet House (pp. 747–755) — commentary segment (~16 min): Marathe turning sinister up close, the custody-chain muddle, stolen valor among the veiled — Infinite Cast — hosts Molly O'Brien and Chris Wade (named in the public feed metadata; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• Infinite Jest Book Club ep. 14: Word is Wayne has exactly one gear — endnote 110 line-by-line (the Orin–Hal call as coded warning), plus Mario's birth section — James (host; Poor Yorick Bookseller / InfiniteJestBookClub on Instagram), Jaime (ASR renders her name as two words), Kevin; reader mail from Tim E.; Liz absent (congratulated on her engagement)
• Infinite Jest Theories / Ending Explained (dfw.neocities.org) — anonymous (dfw.neocities.org)
• Infinite Jest Turns 30 — Three21 Productions, 26 for '26 Episode 1 (host Nick explains the book to a first-timer, with audio-footnote asides) — Three21 Productions — host Nick, guest Zach (first names as given on air)
• Infinite Jest's Enfield Tennis Academy & End Zone's Logos College — Don (DFW Words blog)
• Infinite Jest's Sierpinski-Gasket Structure (an online forum)
• Made You Think 61: Infinite Discussions — credible and incredible IJ theories — Nat Eliason & Neil Soni (Made You Think podcast)
• Mapping the Zone Ep. 01: Wherein We Begin By Beginning — series-opening primer (DFW bio, influences, New Sincerity, composition history, adaptations); no book pages covered — Mapping the Zone — hosts Kate and Cody (first names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is deliberately sparse and best-effort)
• Mapping the Zone Ep. 02: Eating Granola With A Large Wooden Spoon (v2.0) — monthly IJ read-through, pp. 1–105 (Year of Glad through the locker room; the filmography tour, Gompert, Schtitt) — Mapping the Zone — hosts Kate and Cody (first names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is deliberately sparse and best-effort)
• Mapping the Zone Ep. 03: Mmmyellow? — monthly IJ read-through, pp. ~105–198 (Marathe/Steeply temple, videophony, the garage monologue) — Mapping the Zone — hosts Kate and Cody (first names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is deliberately sparse and best-effort)
• 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) — Mapping the Zone — hosts Kate and Cody (first names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is deliberately sparse and best-effort)
• Mapping the Zone Ep. 05: Like Last Time, Only Moreso — pp. ~306–410 (Troeltsch, Mario/Avril, Marathe/Steeply, Eschaton, Boston AA, Mario's puppet film, Lyle) — Mapping the Zone — hosts Kate and Cody (first names per policy; the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels, so per-speaker attribution below is best-effort — Cody is addressed by name on-air and Kate is named once in the correspondence segment)
• Mapping the Zone Ep. 06: Il ne faut plus qu'on pursuive le bonheur — pp. 410–503 (Marathe/Steeply, Clipperton, Gately's routine, the Antitois, the mattress) — Mapping the Zone co-hosts — Kate and Cody per the show theory record (the ASR transcript carries no speaker labels; one voice is addressed as Cody on-air, the other self-identifies by an on-air handle; per-speaker attribution below is best-effort)
• Notes on Infinite Jest — Dan Schmidt
• On Finishing Infinite Jest — Aaron Swartz
• Overdue Ep. 200: Infinite Jest — Andrew's deadline read, the Swartz architecture arriving secondhand via chronology blog posts, and a pre-election Gentle/Trump reading (recorded September 2016) — Andrew Cunningham & Craig Getting (hosts; transcript gives first names only — surnames from the podcast's public identity)
• Spoilers and Explanations (Consider Infinite Jest) — unknown (considerinfinitejest blog)
• The Great Concavity Ep. 19: first-time Infinite Jest readers — Rachel Laird & Amy Peltier on finishing the book (recorded ~late summer 2016) — Matt Bucher & Dave Laird (hosts; ASR renders Bucher as "Matt Booker"); guests Rachel Laird and Amy Peltier (ASR also "Palche"/"Peltier" — first-time readers, non-academics)
• The Infinite Jest Liveblog: What Happened, Pt. 1 — Michael Moats
• The Infinite Jest Liveblog: What Happened, Pt. 2 — Michael Moats
• The Second Time Around (Through page 102) — Don (DFW Words blog)
• Three items about what didn't make it into Infinite Jest — Paul Debraski
• Two Ways to Draw Infinite Jest's Sierpinski Gasket (Chip Lynch, chiply.dev) — with its Hacker News thread — Chip Lynch (chiply.dev); Hacker News discussants (handle-initialled in reader prose)
• What Happens at the End of Infinite Jest? (or, the Infinite Jest ending explained) — Aaron Swartz
• What Happens in Infinite Jest — My Own Personal Theory, Parts One–Four (an online forum)

Community archives

• Four Hacker News threads on David Foster Wallace (completeness pass) — Hacker News discussants (handle-initialled in reader prose)
• Matt Bucher's wallace-l / fandom trilogy (Fantods; Twenty Years of wallace-l; wallace-l Interviews David Lipsky) — Matt Bucher (with David Lipsky)
• The Great Concavity Ep. 1: Introductions — the hosts, wallace-l, and the DFW community (2015) — Matt Bucher & Dave Laird (hosts; ASR renders Bucher as "Matt Booker")
• an online forum — full-history archive digest
• an online forum — full-history archive digest
• “Infinite Jest” Has Turned Thirty. Have We Forgotten How to Read It? (New Yorker anniversary essay + an online forum thread)

Academic

• 'Neurotic and Obsessive' but 'Not Too Intransigent or Defensive': Editing David Foster Wallace — Zac Farber
• A Deep Insider's Elegiac Tribute: The Work of Don DeLillo in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest — Graham Foster
• Becoming Yourself: The Afterlife of Reception — Ed Finn
• Consider David Foster Wallace: Critical Essays — David Hering (ed.); Greg Carlisle, Clare Hayes-Brady, Graham Foster, Connie Luther, Philip Coleman, Gregory Phipps, David Hering, Kiki Benzon, Matt Tresco, Christopher Thomas, Adam Kelly, Christoforos Diakoulakis, Iannis Goerlandt, Thomas Tracey, Christoph Ribbat, Paul Jenner, Daniel Turnbull
• David Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form — David Hering
• Death Is Not the End: David Foster Wallace, His Legacy and His Critics — Jon Baskin
• Demand and the Appearance of Freedom: The Role of Corporate Media in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest — Scott Eric Kaufman
• Diagnosing David Foster Wallace — Amanda Redinger
• Fellows Find: Infinite Jest at 20 — Dan Sinykin
• Television and Literature: David Foster Wallace's Concept of Image-Fiction — Vera Hummel
• The Apocalypse Archive, Chapter 4: The Inverted Nuke in the Garden — David Foster Wallace's Archival Emergence (esp. sec. 4.4 on Infinite Jest) — Bradley J. Fest
• The Fact of the Cage: Reading and Redemption in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest — Karl A. Plank
• The Legacy of David Foster Wallace — Samuel Cohen & Lee Konstantinou (eds.); contributors incl. Paul Giles,
• Understanding David Foster Wallace (revised and expanded edition) — Marshall Boswell
• What the Hell is Water? Priming, Epiphany, and David Foster Wallace's Roadmap to Freedom from the Default Setting — Ryan Blanck
• “I Am in Here”: A Comparative Reading of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest and Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis — Allard den Dulk

Column

• Infinite Jest — Robbert-Jan Henkes

Context

• "David Foster Wallace (1962-2008)" (George Saunders, Guardian 'writers' obituaries of the noughties') — George Saunders
• BBC Radio 3, 'Endnotes': David Foster Wallace (2011) — pre-Pale King documentary with 1995 DFW tape, Amy Wallace, Mark Costello, Bonnie Nadell, Don DeLillo, Rick Moody, Curtis White, Charles Harris, and Michael Pietsch — BBC Radio 3 documentary; presenter unnamed on tape (a critic who wrote a literary history of America ending at the Bellow/Roth/Pynchon/DeLillo generation; identity inferred, not announced); interviewees named in-audio
• Charles Bock's report from the University of Arizona David Foster Wallace tribute (The Howling Fantods, May 2009) — Charles Bock (report), posted at The Howling Fantods
• Come On, Pilgrim — Elizabeth Lopatto
• Coming to Terms: Franzen, Wallace and the question of realism — Jon Baskin
• Curtis White: There's No Such Thing as Postmodernism — Curtis White
• David Foster Wallace Archives (HTMLGIANT, opening day) — Blake Butler
• David Foster Wallace and 20 years of Infinite Jest — Megan E. Barnard
• David Foster Wallace and Imagining Moral Fiction — Alec Niedenthal
• David Foster Wallace and the Comedy Nerd — Blythe Roberson
• David Foster Wallace and the Harry Ransom Center (CultureMap Austin, five-part series, July 2011) — Samantha Pitchel
• David Foster Wallace remembered (Telegraph) — Tim Martin
• David Foster Wallace's Self-Help Books Removed From Archive — Maria Bustillos
• David Foster Wallace's Tax Classes — Seth Colter Walls
• David Foster Wallace's Writing Routine — Kia Orion (The Writer's Daily Practice)
• David Foster Wallace: The Last Audit — Tom McCarthy
• Donald Antrim and the Art of Anxiety (New York Times Magazine) — John Jeremiah Sullivan
• English Honors seminar course on David Foster Wallace gives undergraduates a look into Wallace's archive — Emily Neie
• Four writers sitting around talking (Campbell & Dailey, OregonLive) — Don Campbell and Daisy Dailey (reporters); David Foster Wallace (one of four panelists)
• Freedom is Overrated: Jonathan Franzen and David Foster Wallace — Sancrucensis (Pater Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist.)
• From the Mixed-Up Files of David Foster Wallace — Seth Colter Walls
• Grieving DFW: Karen Green's Bough Down (Boston Review) — Nicole Rudick
• In Which We Explore The Archives Of David Foster Wallace — Jesse Klein
• In the D.F.W. Archives: An Unfinished Story About the Internet — D. T. Max
• In the David Foster Wallace Archive: Part 1/3 — RR (riles-files)
• In the archive with David Foster Wallace — Graham Foster
• Infinite Loss: David Foster Wallace and the Troublesome, Inescapable \"I\" (LA Weekly) — Gendy Alimurung
• Infinite Mess: David Foster Wallace's Archive — JoAnn Loviglio (as "Rita Booke")
• Inside David Foster Wallace's Private Self-Help Library — Maria Bustillos
• It Doesn't Mean We're Wasting Our Time: Reflections on a postcard from David Foster Wallace — Frank Cassese
• Jonathan Franzen on David Foster Wallace (New York / Vulture) — Willa Paskin
• Jonathan Franzen, \"Farther Away\" — Jonathan Franzen
• Just a Little Taste — Matt Barry
• King of Pain — Algis Valiunas
• Lannan Foundation tribute evening for David Foster Wallace (Santa Fe, 2011): Rick Moody, David Lipsky, and Joanna Scott read; panel on the pre-publication Pale King — Lannan Foundation readings-and-conversations event; readers Rick Moody, David Lipsky, Joanna Scott (introduced by name on tape); host unnamed on tape (a radio interviewer of writers; identity inferred, not announced)
• Lost Libraries: The strange afterlife of authors' book collections — Craig Fehrman
• Marshall Boswell reads Infinite Jest's how-AA-works passage — To the Best of Our Knowledge recommendation segment — Marshall Boswell (reader); To the Best of Our Knowledge (Wisconsin Public Radio / PRI)
• Memories of David Foster Wallace (McSweeney's Internet Tendency) — various (reader/writer submissions, ed. McSweeney's)
• My Infinite Summer: Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way (Parts I & II) — Scott Esposito
• On David Foster Wallace's Birthday, Consider the Ransom Center — Wells Dunbar (KUT / Texas Standard)
• On the Anniversary of His Death: Why Lawyers Love David Foster Wallace (Above the Law) — Tamara Tabo
• Posthumous Gratitude — Michael Casper
• Ransom Center restricts part of Wallace archive — Joe Gross
• Reading Wallace Reading — Mike Miley
• Requiescat in Pace (Kathleen Fitzpatrick) — Kathleen Fitzpatrick
• Symposium: Who Was David Foster Wallace? — Quarterly Conversation (Scott Esposito, ed.); contributors Esposito, Meidav, Evans, Olsen, Hathcock, Lingan, Altschul
• The Brief Interviews Audio Project — staged readings of the hideous-men cycle — DFW Audio Project (performers unnamed in the recordings; not Wallace)
• The Consciousness of David Foster Wallace's Oblivion — Agri Ismail
• The David Foster Wallace archive (Lisa Gold: Research Maven) — Lisa Gold
• The Fight: Considering David Foster Wallace Considering You — Tim Jacobs
• The Lost Years & Last Days of David Foster Wallace — David Lipsky
• The Myth of the Human w/an online forum David Foster Wallace's 'Mister Squishy' — Blake Butler
• The Real Question — Scott F. Parker
• The Work of Literature in the Age of the Office (Parts 1–4) — Christopher Schaberg
• The World According To DFW (Ransom Center archive announcement, with Bonnie Nadell's account) — Alec Michod
• The last days of David Foster Wallace (Salon) — Robert Ito
• Tributes to David Foster Wallace (McSweeney's Internet Tendency) — various (reader/writer submissions, ed. McSweeney's)
• University of Arizona Poetry Center: 'A Memorial Tribute to David Foster Wallace' (event listing, May 1, 2009) — University of Arizona Poetry Center (Spring 2009 Readings & Lectures schedule)
• Unpublished David Foster Wallace story donated to the Ransom Center — Megan E. Barnard
• Unusual Copy of The Broom of the System — Don (DFW Words blog)
• VOCA / University of Arizona Poetry Center: Sonora Review tribute to David Foster Wallace (2009) — short montage excerpt — University of Arizona Poetry Center event, co-sponsored by Sonora Review together with the Prose Reading Series; introduced by Michael Sheehan (co-editor-in-chief, Sonora Review; named on tape); other voices unlabeled (montage editing; attributions inferred, not announced)
• Viz. Wallace Week: Six Visual-Rhetoric Essays (UT Austin, 2012) — viz. (Marjorie Foley, Kendall Gerdes, Ty Alyea, Jay Voss, Eric Detweiler, Matt King)
• What David Foster Wallace Circled in His Dictionary (Wordnik list)
• Why There Were Changes to the Wallace Archive — Bonnie Nadell (via Nick Maniatis, The Howling Fantods)
• \"The Human Heart is a Chump\": Cataloging The Pale King — Jenn Shapland

News

• Nieuws: David Foster Wallace goed tegengeluid in een tijd waarin Hendrik Groen het Boekenweekgeschenk schrijft — Coen Peppelenbos

Press Feature (Review + Excerpt + Author Interview)

• 'Infinite Text': A Review, an Excerpt, and an Interview (Anne Marie Donahue, Boston Phoenix Literary Section, March 1-7 1996) — Anne Marie Donahue (review + interview); David Foster Wallace (interview subject)

Reception

• Esto no es una necrológica: David Foster Wallace — Rodrigo Fresán (PERFIL, Letras Libres)
• Infinite translation — Allau (The Daily Avalanche, allausz.blogspot.com) — with a firsthand comment by Javier Calvo
• L'infinie comédie: un pavé culte enfin traduit — Sylvain Sarrazin (La Presse, Montréal)
• Unendlicher Spaß (David Foster Wallace) — Perlentaucher-Pressespiegel — Perlentaucher (press-review digest; reviews by Greiner/Kämmerlings/Graf/Schader/Rühle/Knörer)
• Как подобрать ключ к Уоллесу: Алексей Поляринов и Сергей Карпов о переводе «Бесконечной шутки» — Ксения Сигаева (Ksenia Sigaeva) — pervoe.online (recap of a Voznesensky Center talk-show event with translators Alexey Polyarinov & Sergey Karpov)
• 《无尽的玩笑》：100万字，全世界有几个人真能读完 — 程千千 (Cheng Qianqian), intern 吴萌 (Wu Meng) — The Paper (澎湃新闻 Péngpài Xīnwén), Shanghai

Reference

• Wallace's book marginalia: the 2010 Ransom Center press-gallery photographs (ten authors) — David Foster Wallace (annotations); Harry Ransom Center (photographs)
• Words David Foster Wallace Circled in His Dictionary (Oblivion, A Supposedly Fun Thing, Ulysses) — Don (DFW Words blog)