The first of our weekly Literary Trading Cards series.
From The Atlantic’s article on the Harry Ransom Center: ”But the library is engaged in more than just speculation. Something else happens when the scribblings of a living artist are placed alongside those of the greats. The center is out to play a role in literary-canon formation, the Ransom Center’s director, Thomas Staley, told me during my recent visit.”
On what would have been his 50th birthday, Salon on David Foster Wallace as a journalist.
File under “things we had no idea about before we saw a flyer for them at our local coffee shop”: There’s a theatrical adaptation of David Foster Wallace’s “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again” happening in Long Island City. (via The Chocolate Factory - Theater | Dance | Music | Gallery)
Journalistically speaking, there is no hot news to offer you about Roger Federer. He is, at 25 30, the best tennis player currently alive.
- Updating David Foster Wallace’s 2006 piece, “Federer as Religious Experience.”
There is no such thing as not voting; you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard’s vote.
