Work by Sarah E. Harris

  1. David Foster Wallace’s writing about tennis

    Posted in Gossip!, September 2009

    DFW is the rea­son I fell in love with ten­nis in the first place, which is prob­a­bly a pretty nerdy rea­son to love a sport, but I’m a pretty nerdy girl. I par­tic­u­larly like this essay he wrote for the NYT in 2006, about Roger Federer and the beauty of sport.

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  2. The US Open

    Posted in Gossip!, September 2009

    Tennis is like a dance con­test and a chess match all at the same time, and watch­ing the women’s sin­gles matches this year has been fas­ci­nat­ing, with lots of epic upsets! Most of the matches are broad­cast online, which I imag­ine would make them easy to watch (with the sound turned off of course) at [...]

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  3. Missed Connections

    Posted in Nonfiction, September 2009

    I jerk my way onto the sub­way, lug­gage in tow. It isn’t my first time in New York City, but it is the first time I’ve made the trip alone, and I feel like peo­ple are star­ing at me as I pull my heavy bags up the nar­row con­crete sub­way stair­wells and bump them over [...]

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