A collection of 14 essays written between 1988 and 2007 and published posthumously illustrating DFW’s enormous curiosity, range, and knowledge.  Writing about tennis, book and movie reviews, style and language advice, and favorite authors from Wittgenstein to Borges, DFW’s brilliance is on display: perfect metaphors, colorful phrase-making, telling details, flowing prose, humor, lists, weird abbreviations, extensive quotes and lengthy footnotes.  Each chapter starts with a list of words that DFW has looked up and kept on his computer—a man after my own heart!