Both Flesh and Not is certainly more for the established Wallace fan than the inductee. Probably the most valuable item is the only piece of pure reportage, "Democracy and Commerce at the U.S. Open", also about tennis but written in Wallace's high style (apparently the readers of Tennis magazine could handle ". . .the sun (as mentioned) explosive, seeming to swell as it lowers, at 1535h. positioned about 40° above the Stadium's W battlements; and the Grandstand Court, attached to the Stadium's E flank, is knife-sliced by the well-known PM Grandstand shadow . . ." etc.). There is also an extraordinarily brilliant and devastating "Indexical Book Review" of an anthology of prose poetry, a newly staked-out genre that Wallace satirises with a list of bullet-points like, "Total # of anthology contributors who are described in bio-note as ‘the enfant terrible of Greek Surrealism': 1." But the true highlight might be the 24 charmingly written (and very helpful) paragraph or page-length usage guides, for words such as "that", "effete" and "myriad". A note from the publisher informs us that, so very touchingly, "it was one of the great thrills of Wallace's life to be invited to serve on the usage panel of The American Heritage Dictionary". This is as good a reason to love him as any.