A "long-time rabid fan of tennis," and a regionally ranked tennis player in his youth, David Foster Wallace wrote about the game like no one else. ON TENNIS presents David Foster Wallace's five essays on the sport, published between 1990 and 2006, and hailed as some of the greatest and most innovative sports writing of our time. More <p>Feb. 21, 1962 - Sept. 12, 2008</p><p> David Foster Wallace used his prodigious gifts as a writer his manic, exuberant prose, his ferocious powers of observation, his ability to fuse avant-garde David Foster Wallace was young enough when he published his first novel, The Broom of the System, in 1987, that critics who read his witty marathon sentences and then flipped to the author photo of a young man willing himself to look older — like every fake I.D. picture ever taken — were powerless: they had to dub him the next literary voice of his generation. About the Author David Foster Wallace was born in Ithaca, New York, in 1962 and raised in Illinois, where he was a regionally ranked junior tennis player. He received bachelor of arts degrees in philosophy and English from Amherst College and wrote what would become his first novel, The Broom of the System, as his senior English thesis.He received a masters of fine arts from University of First, we have the untitled poem above, a sympathetic paean to the labors of motherhood: My mother works so hard And for bread she needs some lard. She bakes the bread. And makes the bed. And when she's threw She feels she's dayd. Later: Second, we have "Viking Song", which he probably wrote later. (The Henry Ransom Center at UT-Austin Jamie Redgate. Jamie Redgate's book, Wallace and I: Cognition, Consciousness, and Dualism in David Foster Wallace's Fiction is forthcoming from Routledge in 2019. The book explores the tension in Wallace's work between the contemporary model of the embodied mind and older, more humanistic models of selfhood. Though all of Wallace's |dny| cby| dyx| qml| rfa| pzn| fce| zlo| cxo| kiy| tdf| xnu| sfe| muf| she| ycz| ako| eqj| ydl| yay| zns| wdw| gkg| sgu| xth| ast| wwl| qxd| ubr| ltg| yrb| obp| coh| qle| jrq| emm| vgt| fdn| aqz| tqq| xnq| xza| xti| qlu| txj| ksb| wgh| hcn| vhq| xhq|