String Theory: David Foster Wallace On Tennis

This beautiful book collects Wallace's non-fiction writing on tennis; Wallace was a good underage player and his knowledge of the game shines through in these essays as, with characteristic wit, he dissects a sport that (a) he clearly loves and (b) understands with a depth that few dedicated sports writers would ever attain. Although some of the essays are more challenging than you'll get from non-polymath-metafictional-geniuses, the writing is stupendous and it's worth the price for the Federer essay alone (a nod too to Wallace's masterpiece, Infinite Jest which is, amongst many, many, many other things, about tennis).