What Would David Foster Wallace Have Thought About Pickleball?

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What Would David Foster Wallace Have Thought About Pickleball?
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The author loved tennis. What about its easy, fun American cousin?

of manipulation and bad behavior have emerged. There’s a zero percent chance he would have escaped the #MeToo reckoning of the past few years unscathed.But maybe, in this hypothetical embittered boomer era, Wallace would also cease to cherish tennis as a sanctified blood sport, a battle against one’s own human limits, and might indulge in some of the more social benefits of a nice day outside, playing a sport almost anyone can play.

“Had he stayed with us, I think he would have viewed pickleball as an activity he wished he had it in him to enjoy, but for reasons of wiring, could not.”In fact, Boswell can think of only one pathway where Wallace might have caught a glimpse of pickleball’s dignity.

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