Statistics for David Foster Wallace Bibliography

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  • The average score is 69 of 122

Answer Stats

TypeYearName% Correct
Novel1996Infinite Jest
100%
Essay1995A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
92%
Essay Collection1997A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
92%
Novel1987The Broom of the System
92%
Novel2011The Pale King
92%
Short Story1998Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
85%
Short Story Collection1999Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
85%
Essay Collection2005Consider the Lobster
85%
Essay2004Consider the Lobster
85%
Short Story Collection1989Girl with Curious Hair
85%
Short Story1989Girl with Curious Hair
85%
Short Story2004Oblivion
85%
Short Story Collection2004Oblivion: Stories
85%
Non-Fiction Book2003Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity
77%
Essay Collection2016String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis
77%
Short Story1999The Depressed Person
77%
Essay1998Big Red Son
69%
Essay Collection2012Both Flesh and Not: Essays
69%
Essay1995David Lynch Keeps His Head
69%
Essay1990Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley
69%
Short Story1991Forever Overhead
69%
Essay1993Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All
69%
Short Story2004Good Old Neon
69%
Essay2005Host
69%
Essay1996Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky
69%
Essay2005Kenyon Commencement Address
69%
Essay1998Laughing with Kafka
69%
Short Story1988Little Expressionless Animals
69%
Short Story1987Lyndon
69%
Non-Fiction Book1990Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present
69%
Essay2001The View from Mrs. Thompson's
69%
Essay1992Tracy Austin's 'Beyond Center Court: My Story'
69%
Essay1999Authority and American Usage (or, 'Politics and the English Language' is Redundant)
62%
Essay2004Borges on the Couch
62%
Essay2005Certainly the End of Something or Other, One Would Sort of Have to Think
62%
Short Story1997Death Is Not the End
62%
Essay1990E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction
62%
Essay Collection2010Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will
62%
Essay1992Greatly Exaggerated
62%
Essay1996Impediments to Passion
62%
Short Story2004Incarnations of Burned Children
62%
Short Story1988John Billy
62%
Essay2007Just Asking
62%
Short Story1988Late Night
62%
Essay1999Overlooked: Five Direly Underappreciated U.S. Novels >1960
62%
Short Story1992Rabbit Resurrected
62%
Short Story1987Solomon Silverfish
62%
Writings Collection2014The David Foster Wallace Reader
62%
Essay1998The Nature of the Fun
62%
Short Story2004The Soul Is Not a Smithy
62%
Novella2004The Suffering Channel
62%
Essay2005Up, Simba
62%
Novella1989Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way
62%
Essay1999100-Word Statement
54%
Short Story2009All That
54%
Short Story2004Another Pioneer
54%
Short Story1999Asset
54%
Short Story1991Church Not Made With Hands
54%
Essay2007Deciderization 2007 - a Special Report
54%
Short Story1988Everything is Green
54%
Essay2006Federer as Religious Experience
54%
Essay1996God Bless You, Mr. Franzen
54%
Short Story2007Good People
54%
Short Story1987Here and There
54%
Short Story2004Mister Squishy
54%
Essay1994Mr. Cogito
54%
Short Story1999Octet
54%
Short Story1987Other Math
54%
Short Story2004Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
54%
Essay2000Rhetoric and the Math Melodrama
54%
Short Story1987Say Never
54%
Short Story1999Suicide as a Sort of Present
54%
Short Story1984The Planet Trillaphon As It Stands In Relation to The Bad Thing
54%
Essay2000The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys, and the Shrub
54%
Short Story1999Adult World (I)
46%
Short Story1999Adult World (II)
46%
Short Story1995An Interval
46%
Short Story1998A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life
46%
Essay1996Back in New Fire
46%
Short Story1989Crash of 69
46%
Short Story1999Datum Centurio
46%
Essay1996Democracy and Commerce at the US Open
46%
Essay1988Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young
46%
Essay1998F/X Porn
46%
Short Story1989Luckily the Account Representative Knew CPR
46%
Short Story1999On His Deathbed, Holding Your Hand, the Acclaimed New Young Off-Broadway Playwright's Father Begs a Boon
46%
Short Story2002Peoria (4)
46%
Short Story2002Peoria (9)
46%
Short Story1994Several Birds
46%
Short Story1999Signifying Nothing
46%
Essay1995Tennis Player Michael Joyce's Professional Artistry as a Paradigm of Certain Stuff about Choice, Freedom, Discipline, Joy, Grotesquerie, and Human Completeness
46%
Essay1998The (As It Were) Seminal Importance of Terminator 2
46%
Essay2001The Best of the Prose Poem
46%
Short Story2008The Compliance Branch
46%
Short Story1999The Devil Is a Busy Man
46%
Essay1990The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress
46%
Short Story1999Think
46%
Short Story1999Tri-Stan: I Sold Sissee Nar to Ecko
46%
Essay2004Twenty-Four Word Notes
46%
Short Story2009Wiggle Room
46%
Short Story1999Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Certain Borders (VI)
46%
Short Story1999Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Certain Borders (XI)
46%
Short Story1999Yet Another Example of the Porousness of Certain Borders (XXIV)
46%
Short Story2011Backbone
38%
Essay1991Exploring Inner Space: War Fever by J.G. Ballard
38%
Essay1992Iris' Story: An Inversion of Philosophic Skepticism: The Blindfold by Siri Hustvedt
38%
Essay2008It All Gets Quite Tricky
38%
Essay1990Michael Martone's Fort Wayne is Seventh on Hitler's List
38%
Short Story1991Order and Flux in Northampton
38%
Essay1991Presley as Paradigm: Dead Elvis: A Chronicle of Cultural Obsession
38%
Essay1996Quo Vadis - Introduction
38%
Essay1990The Horror of Pretentiousness: 'The Great and Secret Show' by Clive Barker
38%
Essay1991The Million-Dollar Tattoo: Laura's Skin by F.J. Fiederspiel
38%
Essay1991Tragic Cuban Emigre and a Tale of 'The Door to Happiness': The Doorman
38%
Essay1992Kathy Acker's Portrait of an Eye: Three Novels
31%
Essay1987Matters of Sense and Opacity
31%
Short Story1985Mr. Costigan in May
31%
Short Story1993The Awakening of My Interest in Annular Systems
31%
Short Story2010A New Examiner
23%
Essay1985Richard Taylor's 'Fatalism' and the Semantics of Physical Modality
23%
Short Story2013The Awakening of My Interest in Advanced Tax
23%
Essay1997Twilight of the Great Literary Beasts: John Updike, Champion Literary Phallocrat, Drops One; Is This Finally the End of the Magnificent Narcissist?
23%

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