June 2010
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The Art of the Unexpected
A couple weeks ago, I was reading “How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart” from David Foster Wallace’s Consider the Lobster, and I couldn’t get over his explanation of why sports stars’ autobiographies are generally so dissatisfying:
Of course, neither Austin nor her book is unique. It’s hard not to notice the way this same air of robotic banality suffuses not only...
