^Adams, Ariel. Bret Easton Ellis Interview. Ask Men. [2014-08-24]. （原始内容存档于2013-11-11）. Early on Ernest Hemingway had a lot of influence on me. Joan Didion and Raymond Carver also had a lot of influence on me. But I like lots of writers... I like Robert Ludlum, Stephen King, Philip Roth, Don DeLillo, and the romantic life of Jack Kerouac, even though I am not interesting in his fiction – but I liked his life.
^I don't enjoy this war one bit. Letters of Note. 2012-02-21 [2012-02-21]. （原始内容存档于2012-02-23）. With that in mind, below is a fascinating letter he wrote at 33 years of age, to Don DeLillo – an award-winning author and playwright for whom Wallace held a great deal of respect.
^Franzen's Favorite Fiction. Oprah's Book Club. 2010-10-15 [2010-10-15]. （原始内容存档于2019-08-12）. He's on our list of great American writers, but we wanted to know: What are Jonathan Franzen's favorite books?
^Begley, Adam. David Mitchell, The Art of Fiction No. 204. The Paris Review. [2014-08-24]. （原始内容存档于2021-01-15）. I read Underworld around that time, and was deeply impressed by it, which led me to Mao II, and Americana, which is where the epigraph is from – but I don’t think there’s a deeper link between our writing. DeLillo is more of an ideas man than me – than just about any novelist I know, for that matter.
