A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
David Foster Wallace · 1997
Contains the title essay (a cruise ship piece as cultural criticism), the Kafka essay, the tennis piece, and the TV essay "E Unibus Pluram," arguably the most important essay about American culture and irony written in the 1990s.
Essays · the Pro canon
The case for it, the case against, and the rest of the canon open with Pro.