ON TENNIS presents David Foster Wallace's five essays on sport, published and hailed as some of the most important and innovative sports writing of our time. This lively, animated David Foster Wallace film answers these questions and more in essays that are also thrilling narrative adventures. Whether it's covering the three-ring circus of John McCain's presidential race, delving into the dictionary wars, or taking on the world's largest lobster cooker at the annual Maine Lobster, following his tragic suicide, his friends and family reveal the lifelong struggle of a beautiful spirit. Author David Foster Wallace at The Strand bookstore in New York on January 11, 2006. For this collection, David Foster Wallace delves into the three-ring circus that is the presidential race to document one of the the most vicious events. campaigns in recent history. Later, he wanders from booth to booth at a lobster festival in Maine and risks his life to get to the bottom of the lobster issue. ON TENNIS presents David Foster Wallace's five essays on the sport, published and hailed as some of the greatest and most innovative sports writing of our time. This lively and entertaining collection begins with Wallace's own experience as prodigious tennis player, Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley Patricia Lockwood. Something to do with paying attention. by David Foster Wallace. McNally Editions. 18, I can list a hundred things that David Foster Wallace should have written before he wrote a book about tax accountants. One, and the most obvious, is a novel about Irish dancers. These widely acclaimed essays from the author of Infinite Jest on television, tennis, cruise ships, and more. established David Foster Wallace as one of the most eminent essayists of his generation. In this exuberantly acclaimed book, a collection of seven articles on topics ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to David Foster Wallace was born in Ithaca, New York, and raised in the Illinois, where he was a regionally ranked junior tennis player. . He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and English from Amherst College and wrote what would become his first novel, The Broom of the System, as his senior thesis in English.