A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

By David Foster Wallace

Categories: Humor & Entertainment, Literature & Fiction

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (1997) collects essays and arguments by David Foster Wallace. The title essay describes a week aboard a luxury Caribbean cruise. Other pieces cover the Illinois State Fair, the tennis player Michael Joyce, the film director David Lynch, the effect of television on American fiction and his own boyhood tennis career.

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