Today in The Nonfiction of David Foster Wallace, we’re discussing Wallace’s “Democracy and Commerce at the U.S. Open,” which features as its protagonist the great Pete Sampras. A long time New Yorker, I’m proud of the way Wallace describes me in a long footnote:

New Yorkers also have an amazing ability to mind their own business and attend to themselves and not notice anything untoward going on, an ability that impresses me every time I come here and that always seems to lie somewhere on the continuum between Stoicism and catatonia.

Sad news has been dogging me the whole open this year, though. Roger Federer ain’t playing.