Girl With Curious Hair

373 pp. Girl with Curious Hair is replete with David Foster Wallace's remarkable and unsettling reimaginations of reality. From the eerily "real," almost holographic evocations of historical figures like Lyndon Johnson and overtelevised game-show hosts and late-night comedians to the title story, where terminal punk nihilism meets Young Republicanism, Wallace renders the incredible comprehensible, the bizarre normal, the absurd hilarious, the familiar strange. Includes: 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.