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Girl with Curious Hair is a collection of short stories by American writer David Foster Wallace, first published in 1989.Though the stories are not related, several reflect Wallace's concern with contemporary trends in fiction, including metafiction and the irony of postmodernism; and the cynical, amoral realism of "Brat Pack" writers such as Bret Easton Ellis.
Having submitted Broom of the System to the Department of English, he decided to focus his career on fiction. Broom was published in 1987 as Wallace completed a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing at the University of Arizona. He had also sold his first short-story collection Girl with Curious Hair.
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The novel's title - Sick Puppy - alludes to the narrator of the David Foster Wallace short story Girl with Curious Hair from the eponymous short story collection. The themes of the book, including the overlaps between violent nihilism and establishment politics, are also explored by Wallace in his work.
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In the short story "Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way" by David Foster Wallace, which appears in his short story collection Girl With Curious Hair, the town of Collision is the site of a fictional McDonald's commercial shot in 1970 and the location of a present-day reunion by ex-McDonald's commercial actors on which the story hinges ...
The story "Lost in the Funhouse" had an overt influence on David Foster Wallace in the final novella of Girl with Curious Hair, "Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way". The protagonist takes a creative writing course at a school near Johns Hopkins, taught by a Professor Ambrose, who says he " is a character in and the object of the ...
David Foster Wallace named one of his short stories "Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way" in his 1989 collection Girl with Curious Hair. Early revisions of the 1995 computer game Oregon Trail II depict the study version of this painting on the title screen. The painting is seen in the 2013 video game BioShock Infinite.