Tag Archives: David Foster Wallace

Tennis Fiction and Osaka’s Brilliance

By Robin Bates | Published: September 14, 2020

Literary fiction that mentions tennis can raise our appreciation of the game, including the play of figures like Naomi Osaka. Nabokov, Roth, and Wallace have all written about tennis.

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To Enjoy Reading Is To Enjoy Instruction

By Robin Bates | Published: February 18, 2016

David Foster Wallace, like Plato, Horace, and Sidney before him, wrestles with the dichotomy between reading for enjoyment and reading for instruction. But what if this is a false dichotomy.

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Attn: English Majors–Business Needs You

By Robin Bates | Published: August 11, 2015

Increasingly businesses are discovering that they need employees who have majored in English and the humanities.

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Tennis Playing–and Writing–at Its Finest

By Robin Bates | Published: July 21, 2012

David Foster Wallace’s ode to Roger Federer comes the closest to capturing his beautiful game.

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