Bookish types (sportreview.net.nz readers are notoriously literary) will have been sad to hear that David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest writer and a fine journalist, took his life last weekend.
As well as being an all-round shit-hot writer, Wallace was a nationally (US) ranked junior Tennis player, and often wrote features on the sport. Here’s what I could find online:
Roger Federer as religious experience – New York Times
Democracy and Commerce at the US Open – Tennis magazine
Tennis, Trigonometry, Tornadoes: A Midwestern boyhood – Harper’s Magazine (pdf, about 3 MB)
Other DFW stuff:
The Onion chips in with NASCAR Cancels Remainder Of Season Following David Foster Wallace’s Death
Get your Enfield Tennis Academy t-shirt
If you enjoyed the tennis writing, try DFW on the cruise ship experience: A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again http://harpers.org/archive/1996/01/0007859
25 Sep 08 at 2:43 pm
Damn, it’s not free, sorry all.
25 Sep 08 at 2:44 pm
Thanks – you can get that essay from this page, titled ‘Shipping Out: On the (nearly lethal) comforts of a luxury cruise’
25 Sep 08 at 3:44 pm