Anton Reicha: The String Quartets #

Ron Drummond, classical.net, archived copy

Anton Reicha was an exact contemporary of Beethoven and his own highly individual and ambitious conception of what instrumental music could be after Haydn, but that music was largely forgotten, and most accounts of Reicha fail to depict what's interesting about it. Drummond turned me on to Reicha almost a decade ago, and now I am obsessed.

#music#reicha

The String Theory #

David Foster Wallace, esquire.com, 1996, archived copy

Pro tennis, experienced courtside, is its own aesthetic universe, which David Foster Wallace captures better than other writers I'm aware of.

#tennis#sport

Federer as Religious Experience #

David Foster Wallace, nytimes.com, 2006, archived copy

More good tennis writing by DFW.

#tennis#sport

Kenny Felder's Essays #

Kenny Felder, felderbooks.com, archived copy

Clever essays on philosophy that combine extreme clarity and insight ("oh yeah, that's right, that's exactly how I'd put it if I could!") with a sort of outsider perspective.

#philosophy