At this point, you might want to take a break from the one-sided who's-your-daddy shellacking that the big Sox-Yanks series is turning out to be . . .
If any of you have an interest in learning more about my favorite athlete, Roger Federer, or about why he matters—or about how I see sports, how I see writing, how I see art, how I see spirituality, and how those various things collide; in some sense how I see the world—check out one of my favorite writers, David Foster Wallace, on Federer in the special section of tomorrow’s NY Times, “Play,” a quarterly magazine the Times does about sports. (If you haven’t read DFW before, understand that the footnotes are as important as the text and you’ll want to find yourself a rhythm for going between them that ensures you read everything.) You might decide the article isn't about tennis at all . . .
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Can't wait to read this. He wrote an essay on tennis that was included in "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" that was superb.
dang man I don't have the attention span. . . was that piece supposed to be Infinite Jest part 2 or something?
What do you expect, 800 words from Foster Wallace?
There were actually two tennis pieces in "Supposedly Fun Thing," including one on fringe pro Michael Joyce that was really something. As much as I loved "Infinite Jest," it's starting to look, despite his I-just-write-articles-for-the-money stance, as if the non-fiction essay might be his best form. But I don't want to be the one to tell him that.
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