A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again :

Wallace, David Foster,

A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again : essays and arguments / David Foster Wallace. - First Back Bay edition. - 353 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

"Originally published in hardcover by Little, Brown and Company, 1997"--Back of title page. Published in Boston, Massachusetts.

Includes bibliographical references.

Derivative sport in Tornado Alley -- E unibus pluram : television and U.S. fiction -- Getting away from already being pretty much away from it all -- Greatly exaggerated -- David Lynch keeps his head -- Tennis player Michael Joyce's professional artistry as a paradigm of certain stuff about choice, freedom, discipline, joy, grotesquerie, and human completeness -- A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again.

A collection of keen observations, witty analyses, and essays on a wide range of subjects exposes the fault lines in today's society.


Wit and humor.