Editing David Foster Wallace (section)

== Legacy ==
In March 2010, it was announced that Wallace's personal papers and archives—drafts of books, stories, essays, poems, letters, and research, including the handwritten notes for ''[[Infinite Jest]]''—had been purchased by the [[University of Texas at Austin]]. They are held at that university's [[Harry Ransom Center]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Cohen |first=Patricia |date=March 9, 2010 |title=David Foster Wallace Papers Are Bought |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/books/09arts-DAVIDFOSTERW_BRF.html |access-date=April 2, 2010}}</ref>

Since 2011, [[Loyola University New Orleans]] has offered English seminar courses on Wallace. Similar courses have also been taught at [[Harvard University]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Warren |first1=Andrew |title=David Foster Wallace & Environs |url=https://scholar.harvard.edu/warren/classes/david-foster-wallace-environs |website=Harvard |access-date=26 October 2021}}</ref> The first David Foster Wallace Conference was hosted by the [[Illinois State University]] Department of English in May 2014; the second was held in May 2015.<ref>{{Cite web |title=David Foster Wallace Conference Program 2015 |url=https://faculty.sharepoint.illinoisstate.edu/dfw/Pages/Conference-Program.aspx |access-date=July 23, 2015 |publisher=[[Illinois State University]] |archive-date=October 6, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181006000731/https://faculty.sharepoint.illinoisstate.edu/dfw/Pages/Conference-Program.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In January 2017, the International David Foster Wallace Society and the ''Journal of David Foster Wallace Studies'' were launched.<ref>{{Cite web |title=DFW Society |url=https://www.dfwsociety.org/ |website=DFW Society}}</ref>

Among the writers who have cited Wallace as an influence are [[Dave Eggers]],<ref>{{Cite news |date=November 14, 2006 |title=Jest Fest |work=[[LA Weekly]] |url=http://www.laweekly.com/arts/jest-fest-2611625}}</ref> [[Jonathan Franzen]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Franzen |first=Jonathan |author-link=Jonathan Franzen |date=November 30, 2010 |title=David Foster Wallace: An elegy by Jonathan Franzen |url=https://poetry.arizona.edu/blog/david-foster-wallace-elegy-jonathan-franzen |access-date=September 21, 2014 |publisher=The University of Arizona Poetry Center}}</ref> [[Rivka Galchen]], [[Matthew Gallaway]], [[David Gordon (novelist)|David Gordon]], [[John Green]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=IncitingSparks |date=February 6, 2017 |title=John Green, Genre Fiction, and the Influence of David Foster Wallace |url=https://incitingsparks.org/2017/02/06/john-green-genre-fiction-and-the-influence-of-david-foster-wallace/ |access-date=March 11, 2019 |website=Inciting Sparks |language=en |archive-date=April 13, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200413104847/https://incitingsparks.org/2017/02/06/john-green-genre-fiction-and-the-influence-of-david-foster-wallace/ |url-status=usurped }}</ref> [[Porochista Khakpour]],<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 3, 2008 |title=Porochista Khakpour and Flammable Fiction |url=http://artsfuse.org/488/porochista-khakpour-and-flammable/ |access-date=March 13, 2019 |website=The Arts Fuse |language=en-US}}</ref> [[George Saunders]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Saunders |first=George |author-link=George Saunders |date=January 2, 2010 |title=Living in the Memory: A Celebration of the Great Writers Who Died in the Past Decade&nbsp;— David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/jan/02/noughties-writers-obituaries-review |access-date=September 21, 2014 |website=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref> [[Michael Schur]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/already-great/|title=Already Great}}</ref> [[Zadie Smith]],<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Franklin |first=Ruth |date=October 4, 2012 |title=Reader: Keep Up! The Identity Crisis of Zadie Smith |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/books-and-arts/magazine/107209/reader-keep |magazine=[[The New Republic]] |access-date=September 21, 2014}}</ref> [[Darin Strauss]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hayes-Brady |first=Steve Paulson interviews Clare |date=September 10, 2018 |title=David Foster Wallace in the #MeToo Era: A Conversation with Clare Hayes-Brady |url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/david-foster-wallace-in-the-metoo-era-a-conversation-with-clare-hayes-brady/ |access-date=March 13, 2019 |website=Los Angeles Review of Books}}</ref> [[Deb Olin Unferth]], [[Elizabeth Wurtzel]],<ref>{{Cite news |last=Wurtzel |first=Elizabeth |author-link=Elizabeth Wurtzel |date=September 21, 2008 |title=Elizabeth Wurtzel on Depression and David Foster Wallace |work=[[New York (magazine)|New York]] |url=http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/50515/ |access-date=September 21, 2014}}</ref> and [[Charles Yu]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Walls |first=Seth Colter |date=April 7, 2011 |title=David Foster Wallace, The Pale King, Roundtable Discussion |website=[[The Daily Beast]] |url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/04/07/david-foster-wallace-the-pale-king-roundtable-discussion.html |access-date=September 21, 2014}}</ref>

===Adaptations===
====Film and television====
A feature-length film adaptation of ''[[Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (film)| Brief Interviews with Hideous Men]]'', directed by [[John Krasinski]] with an ensemble cast, was released in 2009 and premiered at the [[Sundance Film Festival]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lee, Chris |date=January 19, 2009 |title=John Krasinski, 'Brief Interviews With Hideous Men' |work=Los Angeles Times |url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-krasinski19-2009jan19,0,364630.story |access-date=April 2, 2012}}</ref>

The 19th episode of the 23rd season of ''[[The Simpsons]]'', "[[A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again]]" (2012), is loosely based on Wallace's essay "Shipping Out" from his 1997 collection, ''[[A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again]]''. The Simpson family takes a cruise, and Wallace appears in the background of a scene, wearing a tuxedo T-shirt while eating in the ship's dining room. 

The 2015 film ''[[The End of the Tour]]'' is based on conversations [[David Lipsky]] had with Wallace, transcribed in ''[[Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself]]'' (2010). [[Jason Segel]] played Wallace, and [[Jesse Eisenberg]] played Lipsky. The film won an Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the [[Sarasota Film Festival]],<ref>{{Cite news |date=April 19, 2015 |title=2015 Sarasota Film Festival Awards |work=[[The Bradenton Herald]] |url=http://www.bradenton.com/2015/04/19/5753400/2015-sarasota-film-festival-awards.html |url-status=dead |access-date=September 11, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919044337/http://www.bradenton.com/2015/04/19/5753400/2015-sarasota-film-festival-awards.html |archive-date=September 19, 2015}}</ref> and Segel was nominated for the [[Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead]].

"Partridge", a Season 5 episode of [[NBC]]'s ''[[Parks and Recreation]]'', repeatedly references ''Infinite Jest'', of which the show's co-creator, [[Michael Schur]], is a noted fan. Schur also directed the music video for [[The Decemberists]]' "Calamity Song", which depicts the Eschaton game from ''Infinite Jest.''<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJpfK7l404I  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/xJpfK7l404I| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|title=The Decemberists – Calamity Song |date=August 16, 2011 |work=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

==== Stage and music adaptations====
Twelve of the interviews from ''Brief Interviews with Hideous Men'' were adapted as a stage play in 2000 by Dylan McCullough. This was the first theatrical adaptation of Wallace's work. The play, ''Hideous Men'', was also directed by McCullough, and premiered at the [[New York International Fringe Festival]] in August 2000.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-05-27 |title=FRINGE WATCH: Wallace's Hideous Men Live in NYC Through Aug. 26 {{!}} Playbill |url=https://www.playbill.com/article/fringe-watch-wallaces-hideous-men-live-in-nyc-through-aug-26-com-91484 |access-date=2023-03-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220527194844/https://www.playbill.com/article/fringe-watch-wallaces-hideous-men-live-in-nyc-through-aug-26-com-91484 |archive-date=May 27, 2022 }}</ref>

''Brief Interviews'' was also adapted by director Marc Caellas as a play, ''Brief Interviews with Hideous Writers'', which premiered at Fundación Tomás Eloy Martinez in [[Buenos Aires]] on November 4, 2011.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hax |first=Andrés |date=November 1, 2011 |title=Entrevistas repulsivas en la Fundación Tomás Eloy Martínez |language=es |work=[[Clarín (Argentine newspaper)|Clarín]] |url=http://www.revistaenie.clarin.com/escenarios/teatro/Entrevistas_breves_con_escritores_repulsivos-Fundacion_TEM_0_583141891.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315141724/http://www.revistaenie.clarin.com/escenarios/teatro/Entrevistas_breves_con_escritores_repulsivos-Fundacion_TEM_0_583141891.html |archive-date=March 15, 2016}}</ref> In 2012 it was adapted as a play by artist [[Andy Holden (artist)|Andy Holden]] for a two-night run at the [[Institute of Contemporary Arts|ICA]] in London.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Brief Interviews with Hideous Men |url=https://archive.ica.art/whats-on/brief-interviews-hideous-men |access-date=August 22, 2020 |website=archive.ica.art |language=en }}{{Dead link|date=January 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

The short story "Tri-Stan: I Sold Sissee Nar to Ecko", from ''Brief Interviews with Hideous Men'', was adapted by composer [[Eric Moe (composer)|Eric Moe]]<ref>{{Cite web |last=Moe |first=Eric |author-link=Eric Moe (composer) |date=October 19, 2011 |title=DFW + Me = An 'Arranged' Marriage of Music and Fiction |url=http://fictionwritersreview.com/essays/dfw-me-an-arranged-marriage-of-music-and-fiction |access-date=October 19, 2011 |website=[[Fiction Writers Review]]}}</ref> into a 50-minute operatic piece, to be performed with accompanying video projections.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Moe |first=Eric |author-link=Eric Moe (composer) |title=Tri-Stan |url=http://www.ericmoe.net/tristan.html |access-date=February 26, 2011 |publisher=ericmoe.net |archive-date=June 26, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200626151538/http://www.ericmoe.net/tristan.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> The piece was described as having "subversively inscribed classical music into pop culture".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Midgette |first=Anne |author-link=Anne Midgette |date=April 2, 2005 |title=A Menu of Familiar Signposts and a One-Woman Opera |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/02/arts/music/02sequ.html |access-date=April 2, 2010}}</ref>

''Infinite Jest'' was performed once as a stage play by Germany's experimental theater [[Hebbel am Ufer]]. The play was staged in various locations throughout [[Berlin]], and the action took place over a 24-hour period.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wiener, Aaron |date=June 18, 2012 |title=Infinite Jest! Live! On Stage! One Entire Day Only! |url=http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2012/06/infinite_jest_on_stage_berlin_theater_adaptation_of_david_foster_wallace_s_novel_.html |access-date=September 21, 2014 |website=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]}}</ref>

"Good Old Neon", from ''[[Oblivion: Stories]]'', was adapted and performed by Ian Forester at the 2011 [[Hollywood Fringe Festival]], produced by the Los Angeles independent theater company Needtheater.<ref>{{Cite web |title="Hollywood Fringe Festival 2011: 'Deity Clutch,' 'Dumb Waiter,' 'Glint'", LAist. |url=http://laist.com/2011/06/17/hollywood_fringe_festival_2011_deit.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171105200702/http://laist.com/2011/06/17/hollywood_fringe_festival_2011_deit.php |archive-date=November 5, 2017 |access-date=September 21, 2014 |website=LAist}}</ref>

The song "Surrounded by Heads and Bodies", from the album ''[[A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships]]'' by [[The 1975]], borrows its title from the opening line of ''Infinite Jest''.<ref name="pitchfork1">{{Cite web |title=The 1975's Matty Healy Dissects Every Song on A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships |url=https://pitchfork.com/features/song-by-song/the-1975s-matty-healy-dissects-every-song-on-a-brief-inquiry-into-online-relationships/ |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]|date=November 27, 2018 }}</ref> [[The 1975#Band members|Matty Healy]], The 1975's lead singer, said in an interview with ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]'' that he was inspired by the novel after reading it during a stint in rehabilitation:<ref name="pitchfork1" />
{{Blockquote|I was reading [''Infinite Jest''] when I was in rehab. There was no one there. It was me and my nurses, who'd come in and check on me, and then Angela [the protagonist of the song], miles away. I was surrounded by no one, and the book was just open on the front page, as most copies of ''Infinite Jest'' are&nbsp;... nobody reads [''Infinite Jest''] all the way! Everyone our age has got a battered, quarter-read copy of ''Infinite Jest''.}}