Today is the one-month anniversary of the death of one of the world's greatest minds. During the past several weeks, as is often the case when an artist dies, there has been renewed interest in DFW's work. In fact, Infinite Jest, a book that was published 12 years ago, is currently #86 on amazon.com's bestsellers list. Bill Simmons - ESPN.com's Sports Guy - wrote a heavily footnoted column about Manny Ramirez, a tribute to one of the signature characteristics of DFW's style. (Infinte Jest includes 388 footnotes encompassing 96 pages!) And, just anecdotally, I've had several conversations with friends over the past few weeks about DFW and his writing - some of whom had read DFW for the first time and were just blown away by his prowess.
One of my all-time favorite pieces by DFW is a New York Times article titled "Federer as Religious Experience." I just re-read it now, and would encourage you to check it out. It's about as rewarding as reading a sports article can be.
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- Greg Zimmerman
- I'm a trade magazine editor by day and an obsessive sports geek and cheap beer connoisseur by night. Since I'm too much of a wuss to start my own novel, at least for now, writing The New Dork Review of Books is the next best thing. I read and blog about mostly contemporary literary fiction, but often stray into the classics, historical fiction and all varieties of non-fiction as well. Sometimes, I even read Dan Brown.
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