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Brilliant, dazzling, never-before-collected nonfiction writings by "one of America's most daring and talented writers." (Los Angeles Times Book Review).
Both Flesh and Not gathers fifteen of Wallace's seminal essays, all published in book form for the first time.
Never has Wallace's seemingly endless curiosity been more evident than in this compilation of work spanning nearly 20 years of writing. Here, Wallace turns his critical eye with equal enthusiasm toward Roger Federer and Jorge Luis Borges; Terminator 2 and The Best of the Prose Poem; the nature of being a fiction writer and the quandary of defining the essay; the best underappreciated novels and the English language's most irksome misused words; and much more.
Both Flesh and Not restores Wallace's essays as originally written, and it includes a selection from his personal vocabulary list, an assembly of unusual words and definitions.
- Sales Rank: #385060 in Books
- Published on: 2012-11-06
- Released on: 2012-11-06
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.75" h x 1.25" w x 6.00" l, 1.10 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 336 pages
From Booklist
This posthumous volume, appearing in the wake of D. T. Max’s much-discussed biography of Wallace, Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story (2012), gathers 15 previously uncollected essays. Six are book reviews, 3 discuss the contemporary state or art of writing, 2 address tennis, and 1 is about Terminator 2. The remainder cover a range of Wallace’s wide-eyed, “isn’t it weird we take things like ad space at the U.S. Open for granted” subjects and scarily astute criticism. Published originally between 1988 and 2007, these essays demonstrate Wallace’s interdisciplinary approach to both pop culture and abstruse academic discourse. For instance, his formal training in symbolic logic informs his opinion of two, in-his-opinion awful, math novels, Philibert Schogt’s The Wild Numbers (2000) and Apostolos Doxiadis’ Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture (2000), while his familiarity with the actual life and cranium-crunching philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein lends perspective to his appreciation of David Markson’s Wittgenstein’s Mistress (1988). For Wallace devotees, these essays are required reading. For everyone else, they’re sometimes tough to get into but entirely worth the exertion. --Diego B�ez
From Bookforum
Both Flesh and Not is David Foster Wallace at his best and his worst, but the thing about Wallace’s best was that it usually contained his worst... If he’s not going to court the reader, he’s going to hold him in contempt. And you’re going to listen to him because his is the most colossal intelligence in the room. —Gideon Lewis-Kraus
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"Scarily astute. . . . Published originally between 1988 and 2007, these essays demonstrate Wallace's interdisciplinary approach to both pop culture and abstruse academic discourse...For Wallace devotees, these essays are required reading."--Booklist
"A collection spanning 20 years of Wallace's nonfiction writing on subjects as wide-ranging as math, Borges, democracy, the U.S. Open, and the entire spectrum of human experience in between...Both Flesh and Not is excellent in its entirety and just as quietly, unflinchingly soul-stirring."--Maria Popova, Atlantic
"At their best these essays remind us of Wallace's arsenal of talents: his restless, heat-seeking reportorial eye; his ability to convey the physical or emotional truth of things with a couple of flicks of the wrist; his capacity to make leaps, from the mundane to the metaphysical, with breathtaking velocity and ardor."--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
"David Foster Wallace left the essay form in a different state than it was in before he wrote. He wrote of Federer that he had 'exposed the limits, and possibilities, of' his sport. Wallace himself, with mystery and metaphysics galore, did no less for the essay."--Michael Robbins, Chicago Tribune Printers Row
"If you like essays, vocabulary lists (blepharitis! gastine!), footnotes (so many footnotes), and/or DFW, you need this."--Largehearted Boy
"One of the best writers of our time....If you've never read David Foster Wallace before, his masterful study of Roger Federer, included in this anthology, is an ideal place to start."--Steph Opitz, Marie Claire
"Like previous collections of David Foster Wallace's essays, Both Flesh and Not displays the late author's vast intellectual curiosity....showcase[s] Wallace's ever-evolving, intimate, and often humorous relationship with language."--The New Yorker Page-Turner
"David Foster Wallace's essays show a man struggling to figure out the complexities of discernment and judgment....It isn't merely wonderful writing. It is a model of adult citizenship....In Both Flesh and Not, he is at the top of his game."--David Masciotra, The Daily Beast
"The best passages are those that celebrate words and the author's relationship with them....It is a treasure trove for those who love the complexities of language."--Josh Davis, Time Out
"I doubt there's a single person reading this paper who needs me to explain why they should be excited about a new collection of previously uncollected David Foster Wallace essays. His nonfiction is born out of the sort of bitingly perceptive but deeply compassionate humanity our world needs more of, and we should savor every last bit of it he left us."--Rian Johnson, writer and director of "Brick" and "Looper"
"Every one of these pieces, even the tiniest introduction to a collection of prose poems, hums with Wallace's contrary energy....They show a mind at work, and it was one of the best this country has seen."-John Freeman, Boston Sunday Globe
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58 of 59 people found the following review helpful.
worth reading for fans of David Foster Wallace
By Neurasthenic
It is no surprise that the estate of David Foster Wallace has brought this collection to market; his cult has only grown since his death, and his essays were published in so diverse a set of publications during his lifetime that it's unlikely that any but the most fanatical readers saw a large fraction of them. The pieces here appeared originally in The New York Times, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Spin Magazine, Tennis Magazine, Might Magazine, Waterstone's Magazine, Fiction Writer, Salon.com, Science, Rain Taxi, The Atlantic, The New York Times Book Review, and as portions of the Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus and The Best American Essays 2007. The range of topics is not quite so wide, and covers ground familiar to readers of DFW's previous work -- fiction, tennis, Wittgenstein, movies and math.
The collection is clearly the spiritual sibling of A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again and Consider the Lobster, and comparing these seems appropriate. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (hereinafter, "ASFT") is an irregular collection -- the highest points, including the title essay, are superb, but the low points are utterly forgettable. As a result, I typically suggest that newcomers to DFW's essays start with Consider the Lobster; though it contains nothing as wonderful as the Illinois State Fair or Cruise Ship essays in ASFT, it's more consistently impressive.
This collection, Both Flesh and Not, more closely resembles ASFT. It may be that the editors had little control over this; DFW is dead and a finite number of his essays wait to be collected. Here we get two tennis essays (one of which purports to be about the economics of tennis, but it's still a tennis essay), neither of which is as good as the tennis essay in ASFT, which was in turn not one of the stronger pieces in that collection. These might be read as similar in some regards to DFW's wonderful travel writing, where in this case he was traveling to the U.S. Open tennis tournament, but unlike those pieces, we here get a relatively narrow picture of DFW himself, robbed of the neurosis that gives those pieces their soul.
Both Flesh and Not also contains a couple of ruminations on the state of contemporary fiction and book reviews, none of which will alter my reading of such books in the slightest. And even when DFW gives an over-the-top positive review to the book "Wittgenstein's Mistress," his reasoning is so opaque to me (and probably any non-fan of Wittgenstein), that despite my immense respect for DFW, I'm never going to read the book. The essay on Terminator 2 seemed to make only trivial observations about the role of big money in cinema.
So, what here was good? I liked the essay "Rhetoric and the Math Melodrama" from Science magazine. It was a funny and smart discussion of the brief trend in "brilliant mathematician" movies and books that were popular at the time. The essay will reward multiple readings. The notes from the Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus will please the many readers who also liked DFW's "Snoot" essay (reprinted in Consider the Lobster). I similarly liked his deconstruction of prose poems.
One piece, "Back in the New Fire," has not aged well, and seems more dated than anything else by DFW I can recall reading. The piece argues that the advent of AIDS might cause young Americans to embrace a more conservative sexual morality than had seemed to become the norm in the late 1960s and 1970s, and that they might ultimately view this as a blessing. Writing in The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani called this essay "thoroughly offensive," which seems too strong a reaction to me. It's an odd piece but one would have to almost deliberately misread it to think that DFW was calling for the death of gays, or whatever Michiko thought was going on.
DFW so consistently proved himself a brilliant writer that I find myself holding him to a high standard. I don't think this is unfair; he held himself to a high standard as well. This collection does not contain his best work and should probably not be anybody's introduction to DFW, but it is totally worth reading.
One point about the form of this collection rather than the content. The date of original publication of each piece appears at that piece's end, and the book or magazine in which each piece appeared is listed in an appendix. This information should all be on the first page of each essay.
19 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
Kind of disappointing, doesn't merit a new book
By Pearlie2454
It's difficult not to get the idea that Little Brown didn't just piece together the remaining odds and ends by Wallace to capitalize further on the current David Foster Wallace industry. Wallace himself probably would not have wanted to include some of these pieces in a book of essays. It is not as if these are grand, unfinished, posthumous projects, non-fiction equivalents to the Pale King-this is a selection of published material from throughout his career, and he would have had plenty of opportunities to include them in a collection if he had wanted to. Including a two-page "direly under appreciated novels >1960" as a solo essay seemed particularly silly. It's hard to call anything written by David Foster Wallace fluff, but this collection doesn't represent his best work.
Nevertheless, there are certainly people who will want this book and they are bound to be a pretty self-selecting group. There are a few very good essays in this collection-the Federer essay and the review of the novel Wittgenstein's Mistress come to mind (though this review is available in full online and in any copy of the novel). And if you want to hear him discuss tennis yet again there's an essay about the US Open. As a complete essay collection, however, Both Flesh and Not comes nowhere near the breadth of Consider the Lobster or A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
Still quite good, but you can definitely see some of his less friendly insecurities start to shine through in some of them
By jafrank
In some ways, publishing this wasn't fair. Wallace's other non-fiction collections were meticulously curated and show him working at a delirious, fevered intellectual pitch; they also tended to be pieces he had written over the course of a few years in the early 90's or early 2000's. The real problem with Both Flesh and Not is that it extends that chronology all the way back to the 1980's through 2007 with work that, while engaging and funny and often quite insightful, often lacks the really flooring brilliance of his best non-fiction.
In fact several of the pieces in here, especially his literary reviews, come across as the work of a jealously insecure, though deeply erudite mind. It's not enough that he gushes about his love of Wittgenstein's Mistress (which really is phenomenally well done) he also has to write an eye-glazingly protracted piece that makes every conceivable effort to remind you of how thorough and total his own grasp of Wittgenstein/Analytic philosophy is (as though we ever doubted, or even cared). And in a review of 2 thoroughly unimpressive novels about mathematics, he seems interested not only in making it crystal clear that he is a more thoughtful novelist than either of the 2 aforementioned writers, but that he in fact has a much deeper and more profound understanding of higher mathematics than either of them either. In short, Wallace seems to become weirdly passive-aggressive whenever any novelist dares raise their head to write a book about any sort of idea or theme that he himself is personally interested in.
And yet, there are pieces in here that are really gorgeously alive, in particular his essays about Tennis, which are so full of passion and delightful descriptions of Roger Federer, Andre Aggasi, Pete Sampras, et al. in action that they actually made me care about an organized, competitive athletic activity for probably the first time in my life.
However, the later pieces here are hard to read. Not because they recall his impending demise, but simply because they are so heavily rooted in and dependent upon the cultural climate of the late Bush years ("I'm the decider." "Mission Accomplished"… remember when that stuff was in the news)? And the simple fact is that as brilliant and as wide-ranging and as endlessly erudite as David Foster Wallace was, the America of 2014 is by many orders of magnitude more fraught with white noise and anxiety and vast economic woe than even he probably would have imagined if he was still around today. Wallace at his best was a deeply insightful writer and thinker, but 6 years after his death, I think we've already left him behind in the Big American Dread department.
To use a silly pop-music metaphor, Both Flesh and Not is more like a reissue of some huge band's rarities and b-sides rather than a collection of their greatest hits. If you already love Wallace's other books, you will likely love some (though maybe not all) of these essays. If you've never read him or just never made it around to his non-fiction before, this probably isn't the best or strongest place to start from. You'd probably be better served by starting with "Consider the Lobster," or "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll never do Again"
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