Girl with Curious Hair

Girl with Curious Hair is a collection of short stories by David Foster Wallace first published in 1989. Though the stories are not related, many of them share the theme of society's fascination with celebrity, some using real celebrities, including Alex Trebek, David Letterman and Lyndon Johnson, as fictional characters. Several of the stories also mock or criticize what Wallace saw as bad trends in the literary scene, including the cynical, amoral realism of 1980 "Brat Pack" writers such as Bret Easton Ellis, as well as postmodern literary criticism and metafiction. A novella, "Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way", draws heavily on John Barth's metafictional short story "Lost in the Funhouse".

List of Stories

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