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Both Flesh and Not
First Edition hardcover
AuthorDavid Foster Wallace
Cover artistMarie Mundaca
LanguageEnglish
GenreNon-Fiction
PublisherLittle, Brown and Company
Publication date
November 6, 2012 (U.S.)
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages336
Preceded byThe Pale King 

Both Flesh and Not (2012) is a collection of fifteen nonfiction essays by American author David Foster Wallace. It is Wallace’s third essay collection.

List of Essays

  • "Federer Both Flesh and Not"
  • "Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young"
  • "The Empty Plenum: David Markson’s Wittgenstein’s Mistress"
  • "Mr. Cogito"
  • "Democracy and Commerce at the U.S. Open"
  • "Back in New Fire"
  • "The (As It Were) Seminal Importance of Terminator 2"
  • "The Nature of Fun"
  • "Overlooked: Five direly underappreciated U.S. novels >1960"
  • "Rhetoric and the Math Melodrama"
  • "The Best of the Prose Poem"
  • "Twenty-Four Word Notes"
  • "Borges on the Couch"
  • "Deciderization 2007—A Special Report"
  • "Just Asking"