David Hering (SSMG Press, 2010); David Lipsky, Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Roadtrip with David Foster Wallace (Broadway Books, 2010); David Foster Wallace, Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity Reissue (W.W. Norton and Company 2010); David Foster Wallace, Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will eds. Steven M. Cahn and Maureen Eckert (Columbia.
In 2006 David Foster Wallace opened his much celebrated New York Times Magazine essay “Federer as Religious Experience” with “Almost anyone who loves tennis and follows the men’s tour on television has, over the last few years, had what might be termed Federer Moments. These are times, as you watch the young Swiss play, when the jaw drops and eyes protrude and sounds are made that.
Perhaps the best of his essays on the subject is the title essay from the most recent volume, “Federer Both Flesh and Not.” In this ostensible profile of the seven-time Wimbledon champion, Wallace uses his subject’s athletic ingenuity to make a very original (if somewhat oblique) teleological argument for the existence of God. He moves from classic sports journalism—”Federer’s.
The splashiest piece of sportswriting in my lifetime might be David Foster Wallace’s 2006 profile of Roger Federer, printed in the New York Times’s short-lived Play magazine. A wrinkled copy of it lived under my old Xbox console for years, so that I knew exactly where to revisit it. At the time, the essay felt electrifying and alien; a decade later it is still very good, but not even the.
It’s a winning combination that makes his five essays on tennis, published together for the first time in the new (and very good-looking) Library of America collection, String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis, some of his best. His enthusiasm for the game is so infectious, he manages to imbue even the most detailed technical descriptions with a sense of beauty and awe. His most famous.
Tag Archives: david foster wallace essay Capturing That Religious Experience: On David Foster Wallace’s 2006 Essay “Federer Both Flesh And Not” Not much of a tennis fan, that I’m pretty sure of. You see, a pro tennis match may be something I’ll be forced to watch if the other cable TV programs have realized that I’m not impervious to death by boredom. Like some scene straight out.
The Pale King remained unfinished at the time of David Foster Wallace's death, but it is a deeply compelling and satisfying novel, hilarious and fearless and as original as anything Wallace ever undertook. It grapples directly with ultimate questions—questions of life's meaning and of the value of work and society—through characters imagined with the interior force and generosity that were.
The piece by Brian Phillips on Pele and David Foster Wallace's Federer essay, though, is relevant to our interests. In the midst of describing one of these Federer Moments where sport allows us to transcend the limitations of our own bodies, if only vicariously, DFW circles round to the cancer-stricken nine-year-old ceremonial coin-tosser at Wimbledon, William Caines.
In 2006, The New York Times's short-lived sports magazine, Play, sent David Foster Wallace to Wimbeldon. His assignment was to cover Roger Federer, the virtuosic three-time defending champion of tennis's most prestigious event. Though Wallace was able to finagle only 20 minutes with his subject, he turned in a dazzling meditation on the nature of Federer's kinetic genius and its context within.
Watching Federer claim his record 20 th major title this past weekend at Melbourne Park reminded me why I loved the David Foster Wallace article so much when I first read it. It was because it was the first time I was seeing someone capture in print all that my eyes had seen, but my pen couldn’t articulate, during the period referred to above. Like many others, I had several “Federer.
FEDERER is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 19 times. There are related answers (shown below). Try defining FEDERER with Google. Referring crossword puzzle clues. Sort A-Z. Seven-time Wimbledon champ; Djokovic rival; Roger with seven Wimbledon wins; Tennis star Roger; Tennis player who was the subject of a popular David Foster Wallace essay; Tennis champ Roger; Swiss tennis star.
String Theory, a collection of David Foster Wallace’s writings on tennis will be out next month. 1 The five pieces in the book include his NY Times’ essay on Federer and a 1991 piece from Harper’s.John Jeremiah Sullivan wrote an introduction, which was published recently in the New Yorker. The collection is also available on the Kindle, without the Sullivan intro.