Book Business' The Best We Read 2012
We asked staff and contributors to tell us about the best books they read in the last year.
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Alex Schwartz, Marketing Manager
Both Flesh and Not: Essays, by David Foster Wallace (Little, Brown and Company, 2012)
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The latest posthumously published work from David Foster Wallace gathers 15 essays ranging from the brilliance of Roger Federer's tennis game to the recent rise in “cultural stock” in mathematics. Though Wallace’s writing style can feel at points long-winded and grandiloquent—his word, not mine—his power of observation and ability to make the most (seemingly) mundane subjects come to life is astounding. In the final paragraph of the title essay, “Federer Both Flesh and Not,” Wallace writes, “Genius is not replicable. Inspiration, though, is contagious, and multiform.”
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