Tennis4y
Book Review: David Foster Wallace's String Theory
There's no better time than now to catch up on your reading, and if you're a tennis fan, look no farther than String Theory: David Foster Wallace On Tennis. For tennis aficionados everywhere ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency9y
Actor Jason Segel opens up about childhood as Jewish outsider
Like David Foster Wallace, who he plays in a new movie, Segel said he long felt unsure of his place in the world. Actor Jason Segel — best known as the star of “Forgetting Sarah Marshall ...
London Review of Books1y
On David Foster Wallace
In her recent piece for the paper, Patricia Lockwood revisits David Foster Wallace’s work in the light of posthumous publications and the shadow of #MeToo. Lockwood joined Joanne O’Leary, an editor at ...
UCSD Guardian8d
American men’s tennis remains on the cusp, for now
In his 1996 essay, “The String Theory,” David Foster Wallace — amid other musings on the burgeoning tennis career of an early ...
Time4y
Roger Federer
It’s no secret that Roger Federer is the greatest tennis player ever. As David Foster Wallace wrote, he is “one of those rare, preternatural athletes who appear to be exempt, at least in part ...