DFW's 10th Anniversary Edition of "Infinite Jest" + New Essay "Federer as a Religious Experiance"

I love David Foster Wallace. I first disovered his 1996 novel Infinite Jest while browsing the shelves of The City of Panama City City Library (not kidding, actual name of the library) for the longest book possible. I pulled it off the shelf, read the first two pages and fell in love with a man for the first time. Er...

My resolve disolved a few days later and I did not finish the ardous task of reading Infinite Jest cover to cover. It collected no dust, either, for it was buried deep beneath some dishevlement of my apartment and when discovered months later, ha ha, big joke, I owed a late fee to the CoPCCL. I turned then to The Broom of the System and The Girl With Curious Hair. Loved those novels. Equally enthralling, but shorter and a bit less complex. I am now, only at the advent of the release of the 10th Anniversary edition of Infinite Jest, returning to the book that started it all. I am a quarter of the way through and I feel already as if I have done all the reading I needed to do all year. (Although, I am also reading book #4 of Jack Kerouac's Dulouz Legend: "The Vanity of Dulouz" and "100 Questions All First Time Homebuyers Should Ask.")

In the few minutes of idle time I had at work today, I discovered that David Foster Wallace as written a new essay (the form of writing he has, of late, been exclusively undertaking) entitled Federer as a Religious Experiance that was published in the New York Times. Whether you enjoy the sport of Tennis or not, you ought to take the time it takes to read this essay.

Okay, gotta go Track. I'm on the schedule for the last hour. I have to go relieve a guy with crutches.

peace and love,
Mungo