Monday, 3 January 2011

Tennis

I'm thinking of writing about tennis. For inspiration, I read David Foster Wallace's "Federer As Religious Experience" for the NY Times Magazine in 2006. If a British writer had described the Swiss tennis player in the same terms, he would have been heading straight for Private Eye's Pseuds Corner. Thank heavens, then, that DFW was American, and unencumbered by such self-consciousness.

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