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A supposedly great article I’ll never read the same way again | The Outline

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David Foster Wallace’s journalism is, in many ways, inaccurate. But he’s hardly the only venerated journalist to have made stuff up.

Jeremy Gordon May—13—2019 01:03PM EST Last week I was thinking about David Foster Wallace’s 2006 profile of Roger Federer in The New York Times’ ill-fated sports-themed Play magazine, and decided to reread it for the first time in a while. Though Wallace’s controversial reputation has rightfully been re-examined in recent years, the profile was the rare occasion of a great writer meeting a great athlete at their peak. Today’s elite athletes are more likely to be chronicled by medium-talent stenographers, release content on their own platforms, or go to

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