One of the qualities of a good writer is that their work generates good writing

David Foster Wallace, 1962-2008

I will continue to add to this list as I come across additional writing.

DFW writing available online

• "Little Expressionless Animals" The Paris Review, 1988


• "Several Birds" The New Yorker, 1994


• "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men" The Paris Review, 1997


• "Asset" The New Yorker, 1999


• "Good People" The New Yorker, 2007


• Archive of DFW's writing in Harper's Magazine


• DFW on Roger Federer in the NYT


• DFW's 2005 Commencement Address at Kenyon College (text)

Interviews

• Laura Miller, 1996


• Charlie Rose (with Jonathan Franzen and Mark Leyner), 1996


• Charlie Rose (solo), 1997

Reviews

• The Broom of the System
  Caryn James (NYT Book Review)


• Infinite Jest
  Michiko Kakutani (NYT)
  Jay McInerney (NYT Book Review)
  David L. Ulin (L.A. Times, via Powell's.com)


• The Girl with the Curious Hair
  Jenifer Levin (NYT Book Review)


• Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
  Adam Goodheart (NYT Book Review)
  Michiko Kakutani (NYT)


• Oblivion
  Michiko Kakutani (NYT)
  Walter Kirn (NYT Book Review)


• A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
  Michiko Kakutani (NYT)
  Laura Miller (NYT Book Review)


• A Compact History of Infinity
  David Papineau (NYT Book Review)


• Consider the Lobster
  Michiko Kakutani (NYT)
  Pankaj Mishra (NYT Book Review)

Obits and responses to DFW's death

• The first notice of DFW's death in the NYT


• DFW's NYT obit


• The LA Times on a DFW memorial service at Pamona College on 10/4/08


• The NYT on a DFW memorial service at NYU on 10/23/08


• Caleb Crain on DFW


• Dwight Garner on DFW in the NYT's Paper Cuts Blog


• David Gates on DFW in Newsweek


• Matthew Gilbert in the Boston Globe's Viewer Discretion blog


• John Gruber on DFW


• Chad Harbach in n+1


• Robert Ito in Salon.com on DFW's last days


• Michiko Kakutani on DFW in the NYT


• Verlyn Klinkenborg on DFW in the NYT


• Jonah Lehrer on DFW


• Scott McLemee on DFW in Inside Higher Ed


• Testimonials and tributes to DFW on McSweeney's.net


• Laura Miller on DFW in Salon.com


• Mark Morford on DFW in the San Francisco Chronicle


• Testimonials from Pamona College, where DFW taught


• Troy Patterson on DFW on Slate.com


• A. O. Scott on DFW in the NYT


• Christopher Shea on DFW


• Rick Simonson on DFW in his Publishers Weekly blog


• Testimonials on Slate.com


• Deborah Treisman on DFW in the New Yorker


• Dan Visel on DFW in the if:book blog

Other lists of DFW links

• Infinite Jest: Reviews, Articles, & Miscellany


• The Howling Fantods!