A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace

This was in my home of Philo, Illinois, a tiny collection of corn silos and war-era In late childhood I learned how to play tennis on the blacktop courts of a small public park carved from farmland that had been nitrogenized too often to farm anymore. Calculus was, quite literally, child's play. Math at a hilly Eastern school was like waking up it dismantled memory and put it in light. The area behind and below these broad curves at the seam of land and sky I could plot by eye way before I came to know infinitesimals as easements, an integral as schema. Of a whole lot of ice-ironed land that sits and spins atop plates. I'd grown up inside vectors, lines and lines athwart lines, grids-and, on the scale of horizons, broad curving lines of geographic force, the weird topographical drain-swirl College mathĮvokes and catharts a Midwesterner's sickness for home. When I left my boxed township of Illinois farmland to attend my dad's alma mater in the lurid jutting Berkshires of western Massachusetts, I all of a sudden developed a jones for mathematics. His last novel, The Pale King, was published in 2011.A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

He was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and a Whiting Writers’ Award, and was appointed to the Usage Panel for The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. Wallace taught creative writing at Emerson College, Illinois State University, and Pomona College, and published the story collections Girl with Curious Hair, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, Oblivion, the essay collections A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, and Consider the Lobster. His second novel, Infinite Jest, was published in 1996. He received a masters of fine arts from University of Arizona in 1987 and briefly pursued graduate work in philosophy at Harvard University. He received bachelor of arts degrees in philosophy and English from Amherst College and wrote what would become his first novel, The Broom of the System, as his senior English thesis.

David Foster Wallace was born in Ithaca, New York, in 1962 and raised in Illinois, where he was a regionally ranked junior tennis player.

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace