Both Flesh and Not

This is not DFW best non-fiction collection, but neither is it superfluous nor is it inferior. There is quite a lot of literary criticism and non-fiction geared towards readers who arguably would be writers and therefore interested in these subjects.

Not quite up there with ASFTINDA or CTL in terms of sheer stuck-to-the-chair-then-flung-off-the-same-chair-in-squeeing-delight pleasure factor, but BFAN is arguably a more eclectic collection than either, treating us to one courtside tennis feature, one neurotic backstage tennis featurette, an unsurpassable academic-and-not reading of Wittgenstein's Mistress, a deliciously snotty horn-tooting "we've arrived, ma!" for his then-emerging fiction contemps, something vague and unappetising about AIDS, a necessary evisceration of Terminator 2, several shavings on being-a-writer and Borges and writing Best Essay intros, a witty and high-level dissection of Math Melodramas, a nasty out-of-character satirical curiosity on "prose poets," and pedantry from his wet-dream OED contributions.

It's still DFW so there are some 5-star pieces in the collection. But most of it is filler.