Benton Ridge is the setting of David Foster Wallace's short story "Asset", published in the June 21, 1999 issue of The New Yorker.
On September 21, 2008 after the suicide of writer David Foster Wallace, Wurtzel wrote an article for New York about time spent with him.
In the fictional world of David Foster Wallace's futuristic novel Infinite Jest, "Those younger staffers who double as academic and athletic instructors are, by convention at North American tennis academies, known as 'prorectors.'" (Abacus edition 1996, n. 4 at p. 983)
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One of Kenny's first assignments for the magazine was editing David Foster Wallace's "David Lynch Keeps His Head," which would later be collected in Wallace's book A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again.
Wood points to Don DeLillo and Thomas Pynchon as the forefathers of the genre, which continues in writers like David Foster Wallace and Salman Rushdie.
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.
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.