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Tennis Writing, Anyone?

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In this week's New York Times Sunday Book Review, Touré imagines a tennis tournament of writers, based on their tennis-writing skills. The semi-finals shape up like this:  "On one side we had the No. 2 seed, John McPhee, against the wild cardVladimir Nabokov. On the other we saw the eighth seed, Martin Amis, against the No. 1 seed, David Foster Wallace." Read the play-by-play here. We wonder how these guys might do as crossover athletes...     

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