Wallace didn’t have a ton of access - there’s just a short interview with Federer, buried halfway through the piece - but he had the freedom to Go For It. Today’s elite athletes are more likely to be chronicled by medium-talent stenographers, release content on their own platforms, or go to athlete-friendly publications. 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. 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.
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