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• Federer as Religious Experience

  by David Foster Wallace + Follow

  New York Times Magazine | August 2006

  How one player's grace, speed, power, precision, kinesthetic virtuosity, and seriously wicked topspin are transfiguring men's tennis.

• Consider the Lobster

  by David Foster Wallace + Follow

  Gourmet | August 2004

  For 56 years, the Maine Lobster Festival has been drawing crowds with the promise of sun, fun, and fine food. One visitor would argue that the celebration involves a whole lot more.

• David Lynch Keeps His Head

  by David Foster Wallace + Follow

  Premiere | September 1996

  In which novelist David Foster Wallace visits the set of David Lynch's new movie and finds the director both grandly admirable and sort of nuts.