A Wonderful Thing Ill Never Do Again
 Offset edition hardcover | |
| Author | David Foster Wallace |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Elizabeth Van Itallie |
| Country | U.s.a. |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Not-fiction |
| Publisher | Little, Brown and Co. |
| Publication appointment | 1 February 1997 |
| Media type | Impress (hardback, paperback) |
| Pages | 353 pp |
| ISBN | 0-316-91989-6 |
| 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 title essay, originally published in Harper's equally "Shipping Out", Wallace describes the excesses of his one-week trip in the Caribbean aboard the cruise ship MVZenith, which he rechristens the Nadir. He is uncomfortable with the professional hospitality industry and the "fun" he should be having, and explains how the indulgences of the prowl cause introspection, leading to overwhelming internal despair. Wallace uses footnotes extensively for diverse asides.
Another essay in the aforementioned volume takes upward the vulgarities and excesses of the Illinois State Fair. This collection also includes Wallace's influential essay "E Unibus Pluram" on television'south impact on contemporary literature and the use of irony in American civilization. In 2019, the collection was ranked in Slate as ane of the 50 greatest nonfiction works of the past 25 years.[1]
Essays [edit]
Essays nerveless in the book:
- "Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley" (Harper's, December 1991, nether the title "Lawn tennis, Trigonometry, Tornadoes"): An autobiographical essay nearly Wallace's youth in the Midwest, his involvement in competitive tennis, and his interest in mathematics.
- "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction" (The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 1993)
- "Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from Information technology All" (Harper's, 1994, under the title "Ticket to the Fair"): Wallace'south experiences and opinions on the 1993 Illinois State Off-white, ranging from a written report on competitive baton twirling to speculation on how the Illinois Land Fair is representative of Midwestern civilization and its subsets.
- "Greatly Exaggerated" (Harvard Book Review, 1992): A review of Morte d'Author: An Autopsy past H. Fifty. Hix, including Wallace's personal opinions on the role of the author in literary critical theory.
- "David Lynch Keeps His Head" (Premiere, 1996): Wallace's experiences and opinions from visiting the set for Lost Highway and his thoughts about Lynch'southward oeuvre.
- "Tennis Histrion Michael Joyce'south Professional Artistry as a Prototype of Certain Stuff nigh Choice, Freedom, Discipline, Joy, Grotesquerie, and Homo Completeness" (Esquire, 1996, under the championship "The String Theory"): Wallace's reporting of the qualifying rounds for 1995 Canadian Open and the Open itself, with the writer'southward thoughts on the nature of tennis and professional athletics.
- "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Practice Once more" (Harper'due south, 1996, nether the title "Shipping Out"): Wallace'due south experiences and opinions on a vii-night luxury Caribbean prowl.
In popular culture [edit]
In his 2011 book That Is All, John Hodgman titles a chapter about taking a prowl "A Totally Fun Thing I Would Practice Again as Soon every bit Possible". The name of the 2012 Simpsons episode "A Totally Fun Matter That Bart Will Never Exercise 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 Thing That I'll Never Do Again Either", in which she jokingly suggests that those who've heard of Wallace's book should consider themselves members of the "cultural elite." In Charlie Kaufman's 2022 motion-picture show I'1000 Thinking of Ending Things, the grapheme Jake mentions the volume, refers to E Unibus Pluram, then recites a portion of the essay from the section "Image-Fiction" verbatim.[two]
References [edit]
- ^ Miller, Dan Kois, Laura (2019-11-xviii). "The fifty Best Nonfiction Books of the Past 25 Years". Slate Mag . Retrieved 2020-12-03 .
- ^ Wallace, David Foster. E Unibus Pluram. http://jsomers.internet/DFW_TV.pdf. p. 173.
- Wallace, D. F. (1997). A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Once again. Little, Brown. ISBN 0-316-92528-4
- Wallace, D. F. (1996). "Aircraft Out", Harper's Magazine, January 1996 (292:1748)
External links [edit]
- "Aircraft Out: On the (virtually lethal) comforts of a luxury prowl", Harpers Magazine. Besides known as "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Exercise Again".
- "Ticket to the Fair", Harper'southward Mag. Too known as "Getting Away from Already Being Pretty Much Away from It All".
- "The String Theory", Esquire. Also known as "Tennis Player Michael Joyce's Professional Artistry as a Prototype of Certain Stuff almost Choice, Freedom, Discipline, Joy, Grotesquerie, and Human being Abyss".
- "Due east Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction", The Review of Contemporary Fiction.
- "David Lynch Keeps His Caput" Premiere, 1996
- "Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley", Harper'due south Magazine. Originally under the title "Tennis, Trigonometry, Tornadoes"
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Supposedly_Fun_Thing_I%27ll_Never_Do_Again
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