“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.



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

  1. “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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