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CONTENTS
COVER
TITLE PAGE
WELCOME
DEDICATION
LITTLE EXPRESSIONLESS ANIMALS
LUCKILY THE ACCOUNT REPRESENTATIVE KNEW CPR
GIRL WITH CURIOUS HAIR
LYNDON
JOHN BILLY
HERE AND THERE
MY APPEARANCE
SAY NEVER
EVERYTHING IS GREEN
WESTWARD THE COURSE OF EMPIRE TAKES ITS WAY
ALSO BY DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
NEWSLETTERS
COPYRIGHT
Copyright
These stories are 100 percent fiction. Some of them project the names of “real” public figures onto made-up characters in made-up circumstances. Where the names of corporate, media, or political figures are used here, those names are meant only to denote figures, images, the stuff of collective dreams; they do not denote, or pretend to private information about, actual 3-D persons, living, dead, or otherwise.
Copyright © 1989 by David Foster Wallace
Cover design by Keith Hayes
Cover copyright © 2014 by Hachette Book Group, Inc.
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Part of “Little Expressionless Animals” makes use of the third stanza of John Ashbery’s “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror” from John Ashbery’s Selected Poems (Viking Press, 1985, pp. 192–193).
Parts of “Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way” are written in the margins of John Barth’s “Lost in the Funhouse” and Cynthia Ozick’s “Usurpation (Other People’s Stories)”; p. 294 of “Westward” contains the first seven lines of “Usurpation,” from Cynthia Ozick’s Bloodshed and Three Novellas (Alfred A. Knopf, 1976, p. 132).
Acknowledgment is made to the following publications in which some of the stories in this book originally appeared: “Little Expressionless Animals” in the Paris Review; “Lyndon” in Arrival; “Here and There” in Fiction; “John Billy” in Conjunctions; “My Appearance” in Playboy under the title “Late Night”; “Say Never” in the Florida Review; “Everything Is Green” in Puerto de Sol and Harper’s.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF SUPPORT TO:
The Trustees of the Arizona Humanities Fellowship
The Mr. And Mrs. Wallace Fund for Aimless Children
The Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation
The Corporation of Yaddo
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