This celebrated collection of essays from the author of Infinite
Jest is "brilliantly entertaining...Consider the Lobster proves once
more why Wallace should be regarded as this generation's best comic
writer" (Cleveland Plain Dealer).
Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John
Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet
their fans in person?
David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are
also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring
circus of John McCain's 2000 presidential race, plunging into the wars
between dictionary writers, or confronting the World's Largest Lobster
Cooker at the annual Maine Lobster Festival, Wallace projects a quality
of thought that is uniquely his and a voice as powerful and distinct as
any in American letters.
"Wallace can do sad, funny, silly, heartbreaking, and absurd with
equal ease; he can even do them all at once." --Michiko Kakutani, New
York Times