String Theory: David Foster Wallace on Tennis: A Library of America Special Publication

An instant classic of American sportswriting—the tennis essays of David Foster Wallace, “the best mind of his generation” (A. O. Scott) and “the best tennis-writer of all time” (New York Times)
 
Gathered for the first time in a deluxe collector's edition, here are David Foster Wallace's legendary writings on tennis, five tour-de-force pieces written with a competitor's insight and a fan's obsessive enthusiasm. Wallace brings his dazzling literary magic to the game he loved as he celebrates the other-worldly genius of Roger Federer; offers a wickedly witty disection of Tracy Austin's memoir; considers the artistry of Michael Joyce, a supremely disciplined athlete on the threshold of fame; resists the crush of commerce at the U.S. Open; and recalls his own career as a "near-great" junior player.

Whiting Award-winning writer John Jeremiah Sullivan provides an introduction.

• Levels of the Game
• Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
• Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
• A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
• The Throwback Special: A Novel
• Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity
• Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays
• This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
• Open: An Autobiography
• The Stylish Life: Tennis