For instance, in the music industry, the top-selling pop singers have a strong potential to become celebrities, but the behind-the-scenes professionals tend to remain little known to the general public ( e. g. dancers, disc jockeys, record producers, and composers ); though in recent years, Club DJs such as David Guetta, Skrillex and Deadmau5 or composer David Foster have achieved worldwide fame for their respective work in the music industry.

In a 1996 interview with Michael Silverblatt, David Foster Wallace admitted that the structure of the first draft of Infinite Jest he gave to his editor Michael Pietsch was inspired by fractals, specifically the Sierpinski triangle ( aka Sierpinski gasket ) but that the edited novel is " more like a lopsided Sierpinsky Gasket ".

* 1962 – David Foster Wallace, American writer ( d. 2008 )

American novelist David Foster Wallace described Steps as a " collection of unbelievably creepy little allegorical tableaux done in a terse elegant voice that's like nothing else anywhere ever ".

Many of the innovations that Sterne introduced, adaptations in form that should be understood as an exploration of what constitutes the novel, were highly influential to Modernist writers like James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, and more contemporary writers such as Thomas Pynchon and David Foster Wallace.

* 1949 – David Foster, Canadian musician and composer

Twain worked with music producers David Foster and Nathan Chapman on the new song.

David Foster, producer of the 1982 horror film The Thing, arranged for a private screening for some of Bryanston Pictures ' West Coast executives, and received 1. 5 percent of Vortex's profits and a deferred fee of $ 500.

** David Foster Wallace, American writer ( d. 2008 )

* Writer David Foster Wallace

David Foster Wallace ( February 21, 1962 – September 12, 2008 ) was an award-winning American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California.

The paradox is also mentioned several times in David Foster Wallace's first novel, The Broom of the System as well as The Information, by James Gleick.

** The Pale King by David Foster Wallace

In David Foster Wallace's 1996 novel Infinite Jest, the name of the character Madame Psychosis in a pun that alludes to metempsychosis.

Newton-John collaborated with producer David Foster to record " Hope Is Always Here " for the November 2009 television special, Kaleidoscope.

Its first single was a re-recording of " I Honestly Love You " produced by David Foster and featuring Kenneth " Babyface " Edmonds on background vocals that charted Pop ( No. 67 ) and AC ( No. 18 ).

* New York State Theater ( renamed David H. Koch Theater ) at Lincoln Center, New York City, New York ( with Richard Foster ; 1964 )

Altman was introduced to the story by David Foster, one of the film's producers.

Others from Hope include former White House Chief of Staff Mack McLarty ; attorney Vincent Walker Foster, Jr. ( 1945 – 1993 ); former Louisville, Kentucky, Mayor David L. Armstrong ; Gary Dee ; former Arkansas Secretary of State Kelly Bryant, PGA golfer Ken Duke, actress / vocalist Ketty Lester, and actress Melinda Dillon.

In addition, David Foster Wallace references the Jolt Cola ad campaign in the short story " Mister Squishy ," originally published in McSweeney's and collected in Oblivion: Stories.

* Enfield Tennis Academy, a fictional Boston-area sports academy in David Foster Wallace's novel Infinite Jest

The new design was styled under the direction of Project Design Chief Joe Oros and his team of L. David Ash, Gale Halderman, and John Foster — in Ford's Lincoln – Mercury Division design studios, which produced the winning design in an intramural design contest instigated by Iacocca.

* 1998 David Foster

Benton Ridge is the setting of David Foster Wallace's short story " Asset ", published in the June 21, 1999 issue of The New Yorker.

* In David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, members of Enfield Tennis Academy participate in the WhataBurger Southwest Junior Invitational, a fictional tennis tournament sponsored by the company.

In David Foster Wallace's Pynchon-influenced Infinite Jest the characters Remy Marathe and Hugh Steeply also experience the Brocken spectre on a ridge in the desert outside Tucson.

* David Foster Wallace's novel Infinite Jest references Bazin in regards to film and film criticism.

The sections symbol is used to denote chapters and sections in David Foster Wallace's novel The Pale King, left unfinished with his death in 2008, which deals heavily with the labor and lives of IRS workers.

* David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest includes over 400 endnotes, some over a dozen pages long.

* During a reminiscence in David Foster Wallace's novel Infinite Jest, Dr. James O. Incandenza, the man who went on to make a film that literally kills its audience, refers to having " still-posters from Powell's Peeping Tom " in his childhood bedroom.

* David Foster Wallace's 1996 novel Infinite Jest features characters on the verge of schizophrenia clambering through steam tunnels and being hypnotically lost in media.

Additionally, the French – Canadian quadruple agent Rémy Marathe muses episodically about the possibility of witnessing the fabled spectre on the mountains of Tucson in David Foster Wallace's novel Infinite Jest.

No Republican had served as governor of Alabama since David Peter Lewis vacated the office in 1874, and George Wallace's organization proved insurmountable despite an early poll that placed Martin within range of victory.

Yet there are counter-examples, such as Pynchon's Mason & Dixon and David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest where postmodern narrative coexists with emotional commitment.

David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest: A Reader's Guide.

" The Work of Play in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest ".

" Elegant Complexity: A Study of David Foster Wallace's ' Infinite Jest '".

" An Anguish Becomes Thing: Narrative as Performance in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest ".

"' Put the book down and slowly walk away ': Irony and David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest ".

* Holland, Mary K. "' The Art's Heart's Purpose ': Braving the Narcissistic Loop of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest ".

* Nichols, Catherine " Dialogizing Postmodern Carnival: David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest ".

" David Foster Wallace's seminal novel Infinite Jest has James Incandenza as an alcoholic filmmaker and tennis academy head who drinks Wild Turkey ; and in Scott Sigler ’ s science fiction book Infected, main character Perry Dawsey is described several times as drinking Wild Turkey.

* Samizdat ( video cartridge ), a fictional movie also known as " The Entertainment ," in David Foster Wallace's novel Infinite Jest

This extensive extra-textual apparatus is reminiscent of postmodernist works, such as David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest ( 1996 ) and Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon ( 1997 ), particularly as Clarke's notes humorously refer to previous notes in the novel.