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Book past David Foster Wallace

A Supposedly Fun Matter I'll Never Do Over again
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First edition hardcover

Author David Foster Wallace
Cover creative person Elizabeth Van Itallie
Land U.s.
Linguistic communication English
Genre Non-fiction
Publisher Footling, Brown and Co.

Publication date

1 February 1997
Media type Print (hardback, paperback)
Pages 353 pp
ISBN 0-316-91989-six
OCLC 35318437

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments is a 1997 collection of nonfiction writing by David Foster Wallace.

In the championship essay, originally published in Harper's every bit "Shipping Out", Wallace describes the excesses of his one-calendar week trip in the Caribbean area aboard the cruise ship MVZenith, which he rechristens the Nadir. He is uncomfortable with the professional hospitality industry and the "fun" he should exist having, and explains how the indulgences of the prowl cause introspection, leading to overwhelming internal despair. Wallace uses footnotes extensively for various asides.

Another essay in the same volume takes upwards the vulgarities and excesses of the Illinois State Off-white. This collection also includes Wallace'southward influential essay "E Unibus Pluram" on television's impact on gimmicky literature and the utilize of irony in American culture. In 2019, the drove was ranked in Slate as one of the l greatest nonfiction works of the past 25 years.[1]

Essays [edit]

Essays nerveless in the volume:

  • "Derivative Sport in Tornado Aisle" (Harper's, December 1991, under the championship "Lawn tennis, Trigonometry, Tornadoes"): An autobiographical essay near Wallace's youth in the Midwest, his involvement in competitive tennis, and his interest in mathematics.
  • "East Unibus Pluram: Telly and U.Due south. Fiction" (The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 1993)
  • "Getting Away from Already Existence Pretty Much Away from Information technology All" (Harper'southward, 1994, under the title "Ticket to the Fair"): Wallace'south experiences and opinions on the 1993 Illinois State Fair, ranging from a written report on competitive baton twirling to speculation on how the Illinois State Fair is representative of Midwestern culture and its subsets.
  • "Greatly Exaggerated" (Harvard Volume Review, 1992): A review of Morte d'Writer: An Autopsy by H. 50. Hix, including Wallace'south personal opinions on the role of the author in literary critical theory.
  • "David Lynch Keeps His Head" (Premiere, 1996): Wallace'due south experiences and opinions from visiting the set for Lost Highway and his thoughts about Lynch's oeuvre.
  • "Tennis Role player Michael Joyce'southward Professional person Artistry as a Paradigm of Certain Stuff about Option, Freedom, Field of study, Joy, Grotesquerie, and Human Completeness" (Esquire, 1996, under the title "The String Theory"): Wallace's reporting of the qualifying rounds for 1995 Canadian Open up and the Open itself, with the author's thoughts on the nature of tennis and professional athletics.
  • "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Exercise Again" (Harper's, 1996, nether the championship "Shipping Out"): Wallace'southward experiences and opinions on a vii-night luxury Caribbean cruise.

In popular culture [edit]

In his 2011 book That Is All, John Hodgman titles a chapter about taking a cruise "A Totally Fun Thing I Would Exercise Again every bit Shortly as Possible". The proper name of the 2012 Simpsons episode "A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Once again" also references the title essay. Tina Fey's 2011 memoir Bossypants includes a chapter on her ain prowl feel, titled "My Honeymoon: Or, A Supposedly Fun Affair That I'll Never Do Once again Either", in which she jokingly suggests that those who've heard of Wallace's volume should consider themselves members of the "cultural elite." In Charlie Kaufman's 2020 film I'm Thinking of Ending Things, the grapheme Jake mentions the volume, refers to Due east Unibus Pluram, then recites a portion of the essay from the department "Image-Fiction" verbatim.[ii]

References [edit]

  1. ^ Miller, Dan Kois, Laura (2019-11-eighteen). "The 50 All-time Nonfiction Books of the By 25 Years". Slate Magazine . Retrieved 2020-12-03 .
  2. ^ Wallace, David Foster. East Unibus Pluram. http://jsomers.net/DFW_TV.pdf. p. 173.
  • Wallace, D. F. (1997). A Supposedly Fun Affair I'll Never Exercise Again. Little, Brown. ISBN 0-316-92528-4
  • Wallace, D. F. (1996). "Shipping Out", Harper's Mag, Jan 1996 (292:1748)

External links [edit]

  • "Shipping Out: On the (nearly lethal) comforts of a luxury cruise", Harpers Mag. Too known every bit "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Once again".
  • "Ticket to the Off-white", Harper's Mag. As well known as "Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All".
  • "The Cord Theory", Esquire. Also known as "Lawn tennis Player Michael Joyce'due south Professional person Artistry equally a Paradigm of Certain Stuff about Selection, Freedom, Discipline, Joy, Grotesquerie, and Human Completeness".
  • "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction", The Review of Contemporary Fiction.
  • "David Lynch Keeps His Head" Premiere, 1996
  • "Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley", Harper'south Magazine. Originally under the title "Tennis, Trigonometry, Tornadoes"

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