Collection Summary
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Wallace, David Foster (1962-2008)
David Foster Wallace Papers
1971-2008
46 document boxes, 8 oversize folders (19.32 linear feet), and 433 electronic files
(947 MB)
The David Foster Wallace Papers document
all but one of Wallace's major works, and many of his shorter works.
English
Manuscript Collection MS-5155
Acquisition:
Purchase, 2009 (09-11-011-P, 12-03-010-P, 12-10-005-P)
Access:
Open for research. Researchers must create an online Research Account and agree to the
Materials Use Policy before using archival materials. To request access to electronic files,
please email Reference.
Restrictions on Use:
Certain restrictions apply to the use of electronic files. Researchers must agree to the
Materials Use Policy for Electronic Files before accessing them. Original computer disks and
forensic disk images are restricted. Copying electronic files, including screenshots and
printouts, is not permitted.
Processed by:
Stephen Cooper, 2010; Jenn Shapland, 2012
Born digital materials processed, arranged, and described by Chance Adams and Brenna
Edwards, 2015-2023.
Biographical Sketch
David Foster Wallace was born February 21, 1962, in Ithaca, New York. His father, James
Wallace, is a philosophy professor at the University of Illinois, and his mother, Sally
Foster Wallace, is an instructor in English at Parkland College, a community college in
Champaign, Illinois. Amy Wallace Havens, Wallace's younger sister, practices law in Tucson,
Arizona. Wallace married artist Karen Green in 2004.
As an adolescent, Wallace played football and was a regionally ranked tennis player, but
his interest in writing and language was influenced by his parents, who read
Ulysses out loud to each other. His father read Moby-Dick to Wallace and his sister when they were only eight and
six years old, and his mother would playfully pretend to have a coughing fit if one of the
children made a usage error during supper conversation.
Wallace graduated summa cum laude from Amherst College in 1985
with a double major in Philosophy and English. His philosophy senior thesis dealt with
semantics and modal logic concerning Aristotle's sea battle. His English senior thesis,
around 700 pages and written in five months, turned into Wallace's first novel,
The Broom of the System (1987), which attracted positive attention
and comparisons to the work of Jorge Luis Borges and Thomas Pynchon. At Amherst, Wallace
served for a time as managing editor of Sabrina, The Humor Magazine of Amherst
College, and upon graduation he accepted a fellowship in the writing program at
the University of Arizona, where he graduated with an M.F.A. in 1987. While a graduate
student, Wallace met Bonnie Nadell, a literary agent in San Francisco, who read an excerpt
of The Broom of the System that Wallace had submitted to her agency.
Nadell took on Wallace as a client, establishing a professional and personal relationship
that lasted the rest of his life.
Wallace followed
The Broom of the System with the collection of short
stories Girl With Curious Hair (1988), and he next published
a nonfiction work with co-author Mark Costello titled Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present (1990), which
received a Pulitzer Prize nomination in 1991. Infinite Jest (1996), a massive 1,079 page novel, cemented his
reputation as a formidable literary figure. His other major works include A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
(1997), Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (1999), Up, Simba! (2000), Everything and More: A Compact History
of Infinity (2003), Oblivion (2004), and Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays (2005). Brief Interviews with Hideous Men was adapted for film in 2009.
In addition to the shorter pieces in his collected works, Wallace authored dozens of
stories, non-fiction articles, and book reviews for, among others, the
Amherst Review, the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Magazine, the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Paris Review, Poetry in Review, Rolling Stone, Salon.com, the Village Voice, the Washington Post, and numerous
anthologies. He was the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award in 1987; a Yaddo residency
fellowship in 1987 and 1989; a John Traine Humor Prize in 1988 for Little Expressionless Animals; a National Endowment for the Arts
fellowship in 1989; an Illinois Arts Council Award for Nonfiction in 1989 for Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young; a Quality Paperback
Book Club's New Voices Award in Fiction in 1991 for Girl with Curious Hair; a National Magazine Award finalist in 1995
for Ticket to the Fair and in 1997 for David Lynch Keeps His Head; a Lannan Foundation Award for Literature
in 1996 and 2000; and a MacArthur Foundation fellowship in 1997-2002. He was named
Outstanding University Researcher, Illinois State University, in 1998 and 1999.
Having suffered from anxiety attacks since his late teens, Wallace was diagnosed with
clinical depression during his sophomore year at Amherst. He struggled with the condition
for the rest of his life, and after a particularly rough period during which his usual
medication was no longer effective, Wallace died by suicide on September 12, 2008, at his
home in California. His final novel,
The Pale King, which remained
unfinished at the time of his death, was published in 2011 by Little, Brown and Company
under the guidance of his long-time editor Michael Pietsch. Wallace worked at the Internal
Revenue Service and took accounting classes in preparation for the novel, which focuses on
the employees of an IRS office.
Sources:
Contemporary Authors Online, http://galenet.galegroup.com (accessed
6 September 2010).
Flood, Alison.
Unfinished Foster Wallace novel finds UK
publisher.The Guardian.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/may/07/david-foster-wallace-uk-publisher (accessed 15
December 2009).
Katovsky, Bill.
David Foster Wallace: A Profile.McSweeney's. http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2008/11/7katovsky.html
(accessed 18 March 2010).
Lipsky, David.
The Lost Years & Last Days of David Foster
Wallace.Rolling Stone Magazine, 30 October 2008.
Neyfakh, Leon.
Remembering David Foster Wallace: <emph
render="singlequote">David Would Never Stop Caring</emph> Says Lifelong
Agent.The New York Observer,
http://www.observer.com/2008/arts-culture/david-foster-wallaces-agent (accessed 18 March
2010).
Scope and Contents
The David Foster Wallace Papers document all but one of Wallace's major works and many of
his shorter works. The major works represented are:
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (1999); The Broom of the System (1987); Consider the Lobster, And Other Essays (2005); Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity (2003); Girl with Curious Hair (1989); Infinite Jest (1996); Oblivion: Stories (2004); The Pale King (2011); and A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
(1997). McCain's Promise: Aboard the Straight Talk Express
(2008) is documented with two previously published short versions titled The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys, and the Shrub, and Up, Simba. Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the
Urban Present (1990), coauthored by Wallace and Mark Costello, is Wallace's only
major work without representation. See the Index of Works for a complete listing of all
titles in the papers.
The papers are organized into four series: I. Works, 1984-2006, undated; II. Personal and
Career-related, 1971-2008, undated; III. Copies of Works by Don DeLillo, undated; and IV.
2012 Additional
Pale King Materials (1990-2007, undated). Series I.
has been subdivided into two subseries: A. Novels and Collections, 1987-2006, undated and B.
Short Works, 1984-2006, undated. All of the materials are in English.
Series I. makes up the bulk of the collection and includes handwritten notes and drafts,
notebooks, interview notes, research materials, typescript drafts, proofs, and promotional
materials. Some works are represented by as little as a single uncorrected typescript, but
other works, such as
Everything and More, provide comprehensive
documentation of Wallace's full creative process with research materials, notebooks,
handwritten drafts, original and revised typescript drafts, annotated and corrected 1st,
2nd, and 3rd pass copyedited drafts, and related correspondence. The majority of the
typewritten drafts contain significant annotations and corrections by Wallace, often in
different color inks for subsequent passes through a particular draft. Also present are
Wallace's many comments, frequently humorous and often written on sticky notes attached to
the transcripts, written to the people involved in the various stages of editing.
Series II. contains personal and professional records including teaching materials,
childhood schoolwork, and college awards, essays, and exams. Also present are some personal
journal pages, research materials such as handwritten entomology notes, and an “evidence”
notebook containing freewriting, descriptive phrases, figures of speech, and story
ideas.
Series III. consists solely of photocopy typescripts of three works by Don DeLillo, one of
which,
Underworld, contains extensive handwritten annotations by
Wallace.
Series IV. includes materials related to
The Pale King. The series
comprises handwritten and typescript drafts, outlines, and characters lists; research print
outs and visual aids; and a set of notebooks that contain reading notes, names, snippets of
dialogue, definitions, quotations, and clippings. Manuscript materials have been organized
according to batch and log numbers taken from a spreadsheet provided by Wallace's editor
Michael Pietsch. These numbers are indicated on the folders and correspond to the
spreadsheet page(s) included in each corresponding folder. A copy of the full spreadsheet is
available in the front of Box 1. Where possible, the finding aid indicates the source
location for each manuscript batch (e.g. from his desk or
from a particular disk).
A relatively small amount of correspondence is in the papers, and what is present is almost
entirely work-related between Wallace and his editors, fact-checkers, etc. All incoming
letters are listed in an Index of Correspondents. The majority of Wallace's papers are in
excellent condition, with only a few items requiring preservation restrictions,
photocopying, and/or special housings.
Additional Wallace materials are located at the Ransom Center in the David Foster Wallace
Collection, the Bonnie Nadell Collection of David Foster Wallace, the Steven Moore
Collection of David Foster Wallace, the Don DeLillo Papers, and the James Linville
Paris Review Collection.
320 books arrived at the Ransom Center with the David Foster Wallace Papers, all a part of
Wallace's personal library gathered from his home. These volumes are housed in the Ransom
Center Library and are listed in the University of Texas Library Catalog. 11 books in the collection are restricted from access at the
request of the estate.
One author-marked copy of
Infinite Jest, the contents of
thirteen folders, several author-marked pages of typescripts from additional folders, and
one notebook with loose sheets have been removed from the papers and housed separately due
to preservation restrictions. Photocopy or digital scan printouts of the separated materials
are available in their place. The original materials may be viewed only with curatorial
approval.
Index Terms
Subjects
American literature -- 20th century
Authors, American -- 20th century
DeLillo, Don
Modernism (Literature) -- United
States
Document Types
Galley proofs
Electronic documents.
Juvenilia
Container List
Series I. Works, 1984-2006, undated
Subseries A. Novels and Collections, 1987-2006, undated
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (short story
collection, 1999)
2.4
Octet typescript, undated (published as
Pop Quiz in Spelunker Flophouse Vol. 1, No. 4, 1997)
35.4
Suicide as a Sort of Present,
typescript, undated (published as Self-Harm as a Sort of
Offering in Mid-American Review, No.
18, Spring 1998)
2.5-7
Marked typescript, undated
2.8
Marked set, 20-25 January
1999
3.1-2
Marked set (continued)
3.3
Contents page, undated
The Broom of the System (novel,
1987)
3.4
Inside, typescript draft, four copies,
undated
3.5
Chapter 8, typescript draft,
undated
3.6-9
Typescript draft, undated
4.1-2
Typescript draft, (continued)
4.3
Typescript draft fragments, undated
4.4
Penguin press materials, 1987
Consider the Lobster, And Other Essays (essay
collection, 2005)
4.6
Authority and American Usage, corrected
typescript drafts, undated
4.7
Consider the Lobster, typescript draft,
undated
Host
*
Design manuscript, December 2004
[*removed to oversize flat files]
4.8
First pass draft, 8 July
2005
4.9*
Master proof, 22 July 2005 [*some pages
removed to Box 34 due to preservation restrictions]
4.10
C/E dupe, undated
4.11
How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart,
handwritten and typescript drafts, undated
4.12
Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky, handwritten
and typescript drafts, research materials, undated
4.5
A Series of Remarks on Kafka's
Funniness, typescript drafts, undated
4.13
Up, Simba, correspondence, typescript
drafts, and draft fragments, undated
5.1-3
Up, Simba (continued)
5.4-6
Typescript draft, December 2004
5.7-8
Author set proofs, 22 July
2005
6.1
Author set (continued)
6.2-6
Little, Brown set and photocopy, 22
July-15 August 2005
7.1*
Little, Brown set (continued) [*some
pages removed due to preservation restrictions]
7.2-3
Extremely uncorrected advance proofs,
photocopy, undated
7. 4-5*
Advance proofs, copyedited, undated [*some pages removed due to
preservation restrictions]
8.1
Advance proofs (continued)
8.2
Correspondence, 2005
Everything and More: A Compact History of
Infinity (nonfiction, 2003)
8.3
General outline and index for notebooks A, B, and C, 11/2001
8.4-6
Notebooks A, B, and C, May-October 2001
8.7-10
Notebooks 1, 2, 3, and 4, undated
9.1
Research materials, 2002, undated
9.2
Notes and draft fragments, 2001-2002, undated
9.3-4
Corrected draft, undated
9.5
Typescript draft, 28 February 2002
9.6-7
Typescript with author's editing instructions, 2 July 2002
9.8-9
Redone version, typescript, September
2002
10.1
Redone version (continued)
10.2-4
Typescript photocopy with author's corrections, undated
10.5-8
Copyedited typescript and photocopy, undated
11.1-2
Copyedited typescript photocopy (continued)
11.3-6
Marked set, 2002-2003
11.7
Proofreader's set, 1st pass master, 10
April-5 May 2003
12.1-3
Proofreader's set (continued)
12.4-6
Author's set, 2nd pass and photocopy, 11
July 2003
13.1-3*
Author's set, 2nd pass (continued) [*some
pages removed due to preservation restrictions]
13.4-6
Master 2nd pass, 11-15 July
2003
13.7
Early 3rd pass, fixed sheets, August
2003
13.8
3rd pass, author's set, 4-13 August
2003
14.1-2
3rd pass, author's set
(continued)
Correspondence
14.3*
Jesse Cohen, 2002-2003, undated [*printed scans only; originals removed
due to preservation restrictions]
14.4*
Special notes for Jesse Cohen and
copyeditor, undated [*printed scans only; originals removed due to
preservation restrictions]
14.5*
Erica Neely, 2001-2002 [*printed scans only; originals removed due to
preservation restrictions]
Girl with Curious Hair (short story
collection, 1989)
14.6-7*
Draft fragments, 1987, undated [*printed scans only; originals removed due
to preservation restrictions]
14.8*
Incomplete typescript chapter set, undated [*printed scans only; originals
removed due to preservation restrictions]
15.1*
Incomplete typescript chapter set (continued)
15.2-3
Original draft, undated
Infinite Jest (novel, 1996)
15.4-7
Handwritten drafts, undated
16.1-6
First two sections, typescript drafts and
photocopy, undated
16.7
Typescript draft fragments, undated
17.1-3
Typescript draft fragment (continued)
17.4-8
Typescript draft, with corrections, undated
18.1-6
Typescript draft (continued)
18.7
Draft for copyedit, undated
19.1-6
Draft for copyedit (continued)
20.1-4
Draft for copyedit (continued)
20.5-6
Typescript, copyedited, May-June 1995, undated
21.1-5
Typescript, copyedited (continued)
22.1-3
Typescript, copyedited (continued)
22.4-6
Proof set, 5 September 1995
23.1-5
Proof set, 6-22 September 1995
23.6
Notepad with corrections list
23.7*
Digital copy printouts of corrections of
typos/errors for paperback printing of Infinite Jest, from 1st edition, 2nd printing
Infinite Jest hardcover, 1996 [*book removed
due to preservation restrictions]
Correspondence
23.8
Little, Brown and Co., 1994
23.9
Fan letter, 1997
*
Promotional poster, undated [*removed to oversize flat files]
*
Promotional poster for paperback edition, undated [*removed to oversize
flat files]
Oblivion: Stories (short story collection,
2004)
24.1
Another Pioneer, typescript,
undated
Good Old Neon
24.2
Handwritten drafts, undated
24.3
2nd to last draft, 16 September
2001
24.4
Final draft, 25 September
2001
Mister Squishy
24.5
Handwritten drafts, undated
24.6
Typescript drafts, June 2000-September 2001, undated
Oblivion
24.7
Handwritten draft, undated
24.8
Typescript draft, July 2001
24.9
The Suffering Channel, typescript
draft, undated
24.10-11
Typescript, uncorrected, undated
25.1
Typescript, uncorrected (continued)
25.2-4
Advance proofs, undated
25.5-7*
Author's set, 2-3 March 2004 [*some pages
removed due to preservation restrictions]
The Pale King (novel, 2011)
26.1
Handwritten drafts freewriting and Fierce Infant, undated
Research materials
26.2-4
Accounting classes, 1997-1998
26.5
Boredom
31.12
Midwesternisms notebook,
undated
26.6
Scams, fraud, self defense
26.7
Tax law, 2005-2006, undated
26.8
Correspondence, 1997-2006
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and
Arguments (essay collection, 1997)
1.1
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do
Again, photocopied corrected draft, undated
David Lynch Keeps His Head
1.2
Handwritten notes and draft, undated
1.3
Photocopied corrected draft, undated
1.4
Tennis Player Michael Joyce's Professional
Artistry as a Paradigm of Certain Stuff about Choice, Freedom, Discipline, Joy,
Grotesquerie, and Human Completeness, photocopied corrected draft, undated
1.5-7
Copyedited set, undated
1.8-10
Author set proofs, 29-31 October
1996
2.1-3*
Proof set, 29-31 October 1996 [*some pages removed due to preservation
restrictions]
1203010P_010
Unpleasantness, novel fragments. 8
electronic files: WordPerfect, 1990-1998
Subseries B. Short works, 1984-2006, undated
Adultworld, Part One: The Ever-Changing Status of
the Yen (Esquire, July,
1998)
26.9
Typescript draft, undated
26.10
Galleys, 27 April 1998
26.11
All Things to One Man, typescript, undated (published as
Late Night in Playboy, June 1988; later collected in Girl With Curious Hair as My Appearance, 1989)
26.13
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men,
typescript draft, April 1998 (Harper's Magazine, October
1998; later collected in Brief Interviews with Hideous
Men, 1999)
27.1
Church Not Made With Hands, typescript,
undated (Rampike [Toronto] Winter/Spring
1991)
27.2
Crash of '62, typescripts, undated (University of Arizona
essay; later published in Between C & D, Winter
1989 as Crash of '69)
27.3
Datum Centenarius, typescript, undated
(published as Passion Digitally in New York Times Magazine, September 29, 1996; later collected
in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men,
1999)
Democracy and Commerce at the U. S. Open
(Tennis, September 1996)
20100409P_002
Draft. 1 electronic file: WordPerfect, undated
27.4
Notebook, undated
27.5
Typescript, undated
27.6-7
The Depressed Person, handwritten and
typed drafts, 27 June-6 October 1997 (Harper's Magazine, January 1998)
27.8
E Unibus Pluram: Television and U. S.
Fiction, typescript, undated (Review of Contemporary Fiction, 1993)
27.9*
The Enema Bandit and the Cosmic Buzzer, typescript, undated (unpublished)
[*printed scans only; originals removed due to preservation restrictions]
Federer As Religious Experience (The New York Times, August 20, 2006)
27.10
Interview notes, undated
27.11-12
Research materials, undated
27.13
Typescript drafts, undated
28.1
Typescript drafts (continued)
1203010P_003
Typescript drafts. 2 electronic files: Microsoft Word, April
2007
28.2*
Correspondence, 2006, undated [*printed scans only; originals removed due
to preservation restrictions]
28.3
Play copies, 2006
28.4
Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously
Young, typescript draft, undated (The Review of Contemporary Fiction VIII: 3, 1988)
28.5
Five Direly Underappreciated U. S.
Novels, faxed typescript, 1999 (Salon.com, April 12, 1999)
28.6
Here and There, typescript, 1989 (writing sample for Yaddo
application)
*
Host, layout photocopy typescript, August
2004 (The Atlantic Monthly, April 2005; later
collected in Consider the Lobster, 2005) [*removed to
oversize flat files]
26.12
An Interval, proofs, August-September
1994 (The New Yorker, January 1995)
28.7
John Billy, typescripts, undated (Conjunctions: 12, 1988)
28.8
John Updike, Champion Literary Phallerat, Drops
One: Is This Finally the End for the Magnificent Narcissists?, handwritten
notes, typescript drafts, undated (The New York Observer,
October 13, 1997)
28.9
Laughing with Kafka, typescript draft,
1998 (Harper's Magazine, July 1998; later collected
in Consider the Lobster, 2005)
28.10-11*
My Commencement Speech, handwritten and
typescript drafts, 2005 (speech delivered at Kenyon College, 2005) [*printed scans
only; originals removed due to preservation restrictions]
28.12
The Nature of Fun, faxed typescript, 1998
(Fiction Writer Magazine, September
1998)
Neither Adult Nor Entertainment (Premiere, September, 1998; later collected in Consider the Lobster, 2000)
29.1
Handwritten and typed notes and drafts, undated
29.2
Typescript draft, undated
*
Initial layout, December 1997 [*removed
to oversize flat files]
29.3
Correspondence, undated
29.4
Nothing Happened, typescripts, undated
(Open City, Number Five, 1997)
29.5
Order and Flux in Northampton, typescript
drafts, 1989, undated (Conjunctions: 17, Fall
1991)
29.6
Other Math, typescript, undated (Western Humanities Review, Summer, 1987)
29.7
The Piano in the Pantechnicon, (The Allegheny Review, 1984)
29.8
The Planet Trillaphon as it Stands in Relation to
the Bad Thing, printed excerpt, undated (The Amherst Review, v. XII, 1984)
29.9
Rhetoric and the Math Melodrama,
correspondence, drafts, published essay, 2000-2001, undated (Science, December 22, 2000)
35.3
Self-Harm as a Sort of Offering,
typescript, undated (Mid-American Review, No.
18, Spring 1998; later collected in Brief Interviews with Hideous
Men, 1999, as Suicide as a Kind of
Present)
29.10
Several Birds, correspondence, proofs,
1994, undated (The New Yorker, June 1994)
29.11
Shipping Out: On the (nearly lethal) comforts of
a luxury cruise, corrected faxed proofs, 10-13 November 1995 (Harper's Magazine, January, 1996; later published as A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and
Arguments, 1997)
Shorter pieces
29.12
The (As it Were) Seminal Importance of <emph render="italic"
>Terminator 2</emph>, undated (published as F/X Porn, Waterstone's Magazine, Winter/Spring 1998)
29.12
Back in New Fire, typescript, undated (published as Impediments to Passion, Might Magazine, November/December 1996; later titled Hail the Returning Dragon, Clothed in New
Fire, Shiny Adidas Tracksuits and the
Death of Camp and Other Essays from Might Magazine, 1998)
29.12
<emph render="italic">The Best of the Prose
Poem: An International Journal</emph> book review, typescript drafts,
undated (Rain Taxi, Spring 2001)
29.12
<emph render="italic">The
Blindfold</emph> book review, undated (Contemporary Literary Criticism Vol. 76, 1992; and The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 24, 1992)
29.12
<emph render="italic">Borges: A
Life</emph> book review (The New York Times Book
Review, 2004)
1203010P_003
Deciderization 2007 – A Special Report,
The Best American Essays 2007 introduction. 1
electronic file: Microsoft Word, April 2007
29.12
Sage Pronouncement, December 1992
(Published as From Quite A Bit Longer Thing in
Progress, Conjunctions: 20, Spring
1993)
29.13
Solomon Silverfish, typescript, undated
(Sonora Review, No. 16, Fall 1987)
The String Theory (Esquire, Vol. 126, No. 1, July 1996)
29.14
Notebook, July 1995
29.15
Typescript, March 1996
Tense Present: Democracy, English and the Wars
Over Usage (Harper's Magazine, April
2002; later collected in Consider the Lobster as
Authority and American Usage,
2006)
30.1-2
Notes and research materials, undated
30.3-5
Handwritten and typescript drafts, undated
30.6-7
Harper's Magazine proofs and correspondence,
2001
30.8
Think, typescript draft, undated (Conjunctions: 28, Spring 1997)
30.9-10
Tri-Stan: I Sold Sissee Nar to Ecko,
typescript drafts, 1990, undated (Grand Street 46, Summer
1993; later collected in Brief Interviews with Hideous
Men, 1999)
30.11
The View From Mrs. Thompson's,
handwritten and typescript drafts, undated (Rolling Stone Magazine, October 25, 2001; later collected in
Consider the Lobster, 2005)
The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys, and the Shrub: Seven
Days in the Life of the Late, Great John McCain (Rolling Stone Magazine, April 13, 2000; later titled Up, Simba in Consider the Lobster,
2000)
30.12
Notebook, undated
30.13
McCain research materials, 1998-2000, undated
31.1
McCain research materials (continued)
31.2-5
Handwritten, typescript, and faxed drafts and proof, 2000,
undated
*
Layout proof, March 2000 [* removed to oversize flat files]
Series II. Personal and Career-Related, 1971-2008, undated
Amherst College
31.6*
Essays and exams, 1980-1981, undated [*printed scans only; originals
removed due to preservation restrictions]
35.5-6
Senior thesis, Richard Taylor's <emph
render="singlequote">Fatalism</emph> and the Semantics of Physical
Modality, photocopy typescripts, 1985, undated
31.7*
Awards, acceptance letters, 1979-1999 [*printed scans only; originals removed
due to preservation restrictions; oversize removed to flat files]
35.1
Book withdrawals, 1988-2006, undated
31.8
Correspondence, 1992-2007
1203010P_004
Michael Pietsch. 110 electronic files: WordPerfect, February 1988-March
1999
35.2
Draft of colleague's article, typescript with handwritten notes,
undated
31.9*
Early schoolwork, 1971-1977, undated [*printed scans only; originals removed
due to preservation restrictions]
31.10
Empty folder labeled Emptiness/Closeness
essay, undated
43.1
Evidence notebook, typed and handwritten freewriting, descriptive phrases,
figures of speech, and story ideas, undated [Evidence Notebook: pages 23/24, 77/78,
and 255/256 have torn and missing parts of the page.]
1203010P_011
Illinois State University materials. 71 electronic files: WordPerfect,
October 1987-March 1999
31.11
Interview with Gus Van Sant, Dazed and Confused Magazine, 1991?
31.13
Newspaper clipping, reading announcement, 1987, undated
31.14
Personal journal pages, 1996, undated
Research Materials
32.1
1982: Pages of Time, A Nostalgia
Report, pamphlet; 1983: Remember When. . .A
Nostalgic Look Back in Time, pamphlet
32.2
de Zengotita, Thomas. Mediated: The Hidden Effects of
Media on People, Places, and Things, 2004, with handwritten
notes
32.3
Entomology notes, handwritten, undated
32.4
Fleishman Hillard International Communications binder, 2000
32.5
White, Curtis. The Middle Mind: From the
Poverty of the American Imagination to the New Sublime, 2003, with
handwritten notes
*
Sabrina, The Humor Magazine of Amherst
College, 4 issues, November 1982-April 1983 [*removed to oversize flat
files]
Teaching materials
32.6
Class syllabi, 1992-2008
1203010P_003
Pomona College, syllabi. 2 electronic files: Microsoft Word, August
2007
32.7-8
Taught essays and writing topics, undated
32.9
Teaching notes, undated
32.10
Vocabulary lists, 1989-1997, undated
32.11
Quizzes, essay exams, paper assignments, 1989-1994, undated
Series III. Copies of Works by Don DeLillo, undated
33.1
Love-Lies-Bleeding: A Play, photocopy
typescript with handwritten annotations, undated
33.2-4
Underworld, Parts One, Two, and Three, bound
photocopy typescript with handwritten annotations, undated
33.5
Valparaiso: A Play in Two Acts, photocopy
typescript unmarked, undated
Series IV. 2012 Additional Pale King Materials,
1990-2007,
undated
Typescript drafts with handwritten edits, undated
36.1-2
From his desk: clean print outs
36.3-4
From his wire basket
36.5
Typescript and handwritten drafts, Electric Girl folder, from his wire
basket, undated
Typescript drafts
36.6
2005-2006, WPK ZIP disk print
outs
37.1-2
WPK ZIP disk print outs
(continued)
37.3-4
Fragments, 5" floppy disk #1 print outs, 1992-1997
37.5
5" floppy disk #3 print outs, 1990-1998
45.1-46.6
Disk 1203010P_009 "DFW's Hard Drive," "The Pale King--Desktop" print outs
1999-2007. Printed by Ransom Center.
1203010P_005, 1203010P_007,
1203010P_009
Drafts. 167 electronic files: Microsoft Word, Rich Text Format, temporary
files, Word backup files, November 1999-August 2007
1203010P_006
Glitterer/ SJF, freewriting F99. 3
electronic files: Microsoft Word, July 2000-May 2001
1203010P_003
Irrelevant Chris Fogle drafts. 2
electronic files: Microsoft Word, June 2007
1203010P_012
SJF Torn 97. 36 electronic files:
WordPerfect, August 1992, January-October 1997
1203010P_003,
1203010P_005
WPF fragments. 30 electronic files: Microsoft Word, February 2006-June
2007
38.2
Pale King 2 and SS # Index,
2007
38.3
Glitterer / SJF, freewriting F99,
1999-2004
38.4-5
Black Unlabeled Disk, WPF fragments,
2006-2007
38.1
Disk contents sheets, very fragmented pages from
the corrupted disk, undated
38.6-7
Typescript and handwritten drafts, undated
38.8
Handwritten drafts, 1997-2005, undated
39.1-5
Handwritten drafts, 1997-2005 (continued)
39.6-40.7
Handwritten and typescript drafts from Glitterer/SJF freewriting binder, 2005-2007, undated
40.8
Butterfly notebook, notes and clippings, undated
Handwritten drafts
40.9
Green spiral notebook, undated
41.1*
Green spiral Reward for Return notebook,
undated [*printed scans only; original notebook removed due to preservation
restrictions]
41.2
Harvey Mudd notebook, undated
41.3
Pink kitten Scenes notebook,
undated
41.4
Handwritten Roster of Parts, Rugrats™
notebook, undated
41.5
Leather-wrapped notebook, photos, haiku, clippings and notes,
undated
41.6
Klimt notebook, handwritten notes, undated
41.7*
Records notebook, notes and clippings, undated [*printed scans only; original
notebook removed due to preservation restrictions]
41.8
Visual aids, IRS research, printouts, Peoria map, 2005
41.9
Book withdrawals, 2006, undated
Restricted Material - use of original documents available only with curatorial
approval; please use surrogate copies
34, 42, 44
Materials separated from 2.1-3, 4.9, 7.1, 7.4-5, 13.1-3, 14.3-8, 23.7,
25.5-7, 27.9, 28.2, 28.10-11, 31.6-7, 31.9, 41.1, and 41.7 due to preservation
restrictions
Index of Correspondents
- Bernard-Shellman, Jerry--26.8
- Cohen, Jesse--14.3
- Conn, Charis--27.7
- Dean, Josh--28.2
- Einstein, Susanna--5.1
- Espen, Hal--26.12
- Freudenthal, Peggy--8.2, 20.5
- Garner, Dwight--29.12
- Gehron, Katie--25.2
- Graham, April--8.2
- Gunderson, Tanya--31.8
- Harbach, Chad--31.8
- Harrison, Colin--30.6
- Harrison, Jim--31.8
- Kenny, Glenn--29.3
- Lacy, Stephen--26.8
- Linton, Frank--26.8
- Lorberer, Eric--29.12
- Lovell, Joel--28.9
- Menaker, Daniel--29.10
- Monda, Antonio--28.2
- Neely, Erica--14.5
- Pearce, Christine--29.9
- Pietsch, Michael--4.12, 23.8
- Silverstein, Mary LaMotte--30.6
- Suter, Sherman--29.9
- Tarter, John Charles--9.2
- Testa, [Martina]--31.8
- Uhrig, Betsy--8.2
- Wallace, James D.--36.3
- Watson, Peyton (Watson, Bernard Peyton)--23.9
- Wengert, Bob--9.2
- _____, Mimi--26.8, 28.2
Index of Works
- Adultworld, Part One: The Ever-Changing Status of the
Yen--26.9-10
- All Things to One Man--26.11 (see also Girl with Curious Hair)
- Another Pioneer--24.1
- The (As it Were) Seminal Importance of <emph render="italic">Terminator
2</emph>--29.12
- Authority and American Usage--4.6 (see also
Tense Present: Democracy, English and the Wars Over
Usage)
- Back in New Fire--29.12
- <emph render="italic">The
Blindfold</emph>--29.12
- <emph render="italic">Borges: A
Life</emph>--29.12
- Brief Interviews with Hideous Men--2.4-3.3
- Brief Interviews with Hideous
Men--26.13
- The Broom of the System--3.4-4.4
- Church Not Made With Hands--27.1
- Consider the Lobster--4.7
- Consider the Lobster, And Other Essays--4.5-8.2 (see also Neither Adult Nor Entertainment,The View From Mrs. Thompson's, and The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys, and the Shrub: Seven Days in the Life of the
Late, Great John McCain)
- Crash of '62--27.2
- Datum Centenarius--27.3
- David Lynch Keeps His Head--1.2-3
- Democracy and Commerce at the U. S.
Open--27.4-5
- The Depressed Person--27.6-7
- E Unibus Pluram: Television and U. S.
Fiction--27.8
- The Enema Bandit and the Cosmic Buzzer--27.9
- Everything and More: A Compact History of
Infinity--8.3-14.5
- F/X Porn (see The (As it
Were) Seminal Importance of <emph render="italic">Terminator 2</emph>)
- Federer As Religious
Experience--27.10-28.3
- Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously
Young--28.4
- Five Direly Underappreciated U. S.
Novels--28.5
- From Quite A Bit Longer Thing in Progress
(see Sage Pronouncement)
- Girl with Curious Hair--14.6-15.3 (see also All Things
to One Man)
- Good Old Neon--24.2-4
- Hail the Returning Dragon, Clothed in New
Fire (see Back in New Fire)
- Here and There--28.6
- Host--4.8-10
- How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart--4.11
- Impediments to Passion (see Back in New
Fire)
- Infinite Jest--15.4-23.9
- Inside--3.4
- An Interval--26.12
- John Billy--28.7
- John Updike, Champion Literary Phallerat, Drops One:
Is This Finally the End for the Magnificent Narcissists?--28.8
- Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky--4.12
- Late Night (see All Things
to One Man and Girl with Curious Hair)
- Laughing with Kafka--28.9 (see also A Series of Remarks on Kafka's Funniness)
- Mister Squishy--24.5-6
- My Appearance (see All Things
to One Man and Girl with Curious Hair)
- My Commencement Speech--28.10-11
- The Nature of Fun--28.12
- Neither Adult Nor Entertainment--29.1-3 (see
also Consider the Lobster, And Other Essays)
- Nothing Happened--29.4
- Oblivion--24.7-8
- Oblivion: Stories--24.1-25.7
- Octet--2.4
- Order and Flux in Northampton--29.5
- Other Math--29.6
- The Pale King--26.1-8, 31.12, 36.1-41.9
- Passion, Digitally (see Datum Centenarius)
- The Piano in the Pantechnicon--29.7
- The Planet Trillaphon as it Stands in Relation to the
Bad Thing--29.8
- Pop Quiz (see Octet)
- Rhetoric and the Math Melodrama--29.9
- Richard Taylor's 'Fatalism' and the Semantics of
Physical Modality--35.5-6
- Sage Pronouncement--29.12
- Self-harm as a Sort of Offering--35.3 (see
also Suicide as a Type of Present)
- A Series of Remarks on Kafka's Funniness--4.5
(see also Laughing with Kafka)
- Several Birds--29.10
- Shipping Out: On the (nearly lethal) comforts of a
luxury cruise--29.12 (see alsoA Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never
Do Again)
- Solomon Silverfish--29.13
- The String Theory--29.14-15
- The Suffering Channel--24.9
- Suicide as a Type of Present--35.4 (see also
Self-harm as a Sort of Offering)
- A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do
Again--1.1 (see also Shipping Out: On the (nearly
lethal) comforts of a luxury cruise)
- A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and
Arguments--1.1-2.3
- Tennis Player Michael Joyce's Professional Artistry
as a Paradigm of Certain Stuff about Choice, Freedom, Discipline, Joy, Grotesquerie, and
Human Completeness--1.4
- Tense Present: Democracy, English and the Wars Over
Usage--30.1-7 (see also Authority and American
Usage)
- Think--30.8
- Tri-Stan: I Sold Sissee Nar to Ecko--30.9-10
(see also Brief Interviews with Hideous Men)
- Up, Simba--4.13, 5.1-3 (see also The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys, and the Shrub: Seven Days in the Life of the
Late, Great John McCain)
- The View From Mrs. Thompson's--30.11 (see
also Consider the Lobster, And Other Essays)
- The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys, and the Shrub: Seven Days
in the Life of the Late, Great John McCain--30.12-31.5 (see also Up, Simba)