Girl With Curious Hair - List of Stories

List of Stories

Little Expressionless Animals
A story revolving around the set of the TV game show Jeopardy!, and the coming together of two girls with abnormal childhoods
Luckily the Account Representative Knew CPR
A simple story in which two executives at an unnamed corporation meet in the underground parking lot while leaving late, and the senior executive suddenly has a heart attack.
Girl with Curious Hair
A rich young Republican living an alternate life steeped in punk rock and sadism spends an evening at a Keith Jarrett concert in Irvine, where his LSD-influenced girlfriend is distracted by a girl with curious hair.
Lyndon
 A fictional account of a young man named David Boyd working closely with American president Lyndon B. Johnson and getting entangled personally.
John Billy
 Here and There
 A boy and girl relate the story of their relationship simultaneously.
My Appearance
 An actress appears on Late Night with David Letterman while her television producer husband obsessively coaches her.
Say Never
 Everything Is Green
 Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way

Works by David Foster Wallace
Novels
  • The Broom of the System (1987)
  • Infinite Jest (1996)
  • The Pale King (2011)
Story collections
  • Girl with Curious Hair (1989)
  • Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (1999)
  • Oblivion (2004)
Nonfiction
  • Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present (1990)
  • A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (1997)
  • Up, Simba! (2000)
  • Everything and More (2003)
  • Consider the Lobster (2005)
  • McCain's Promise (2008)
  • This Is Water (2009)
  • Fate, Time, and Language (2011)
  • Both Flesh and Not (2012)
Related articles
  • Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (film)
  • Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself (2010)


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