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“He was dressed in leg warmers. He almost looked like a bum kind of.”

25Jun09

Michael Joyce, the subject of the greatest sports essay ever written, remembers his three weeks with David Foster Wallace in Tennis Week.


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  1. 1 Harrison on June 25, 2009 said:

    “They had decided that after he had finished the whole thing that his writing was too good for their audience.”

    I guess that’s one of the better possible rejection letters…

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