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#56: Ed Caesar, magazine writer

Always Take Notes

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The Levels of the Game

I'm never ever going to write like David Foster Wallace. And it's not a achievable model for me. What seemed much more interesting to me was just this deeply reported thing that John McPhee did about who these two players are. The great thing in the Levels of the Game is Arthur Ashe, who's this kind of like languid, beautiful African American Democrat voting guy. He plays Democrat tennis. But Muhu and Isna are not dissimilar figures. So there was something really appealing about just setting- Who's at Georgia Tech with lots of pretty girls parties? Yeah.

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