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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Tennis Fiction and Osaka’s Brilliance
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To Enjoy Reading Is To Enjoy Instruction
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.
Attn: English Majors–Business Needs You
Increasingly businesses are discovering that they need employees who have majored in English and the humanities.
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