Full name: Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

Author: David Foster Wallace Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Essays, Humor, Short Stories, Philosophy Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780316156110 9780316013321 0316156116 0316013323

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 a vicious 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. Contains: "Big Red Son," "Certainly the End of Something or Other, One Would Sort of Have to Think," "Some Remarks on Kafka's Funniness from Which Probably Not Enough Has Been Removed," "Authority and American Usage," "The View from Mrs. Thompson's," "How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart," "Up, Simba," "Consider the Lobster," "Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky" and "Host." Similar books: How to Be Alone by Jonathan Franzen A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace The Braindead Megaphone by George Saunders Both Flesh and Not by David Foster Wallace Feel Free by Zadie Smith The Patch by John McPhee Table of Contents by John McPhee Pulphead by John Jeremiah Sullivan Step Across This Line by Salman Rushdie The End of the End of the Earth by Jonathan Franzen Broken Vessels by Andre Dubus Nobody's Looking at You by Janet Malcolm Halls of Fame by John D'Agata We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for by Alice Walker The Ecstasy of Influence by Jonathan Lethem It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It by Robert Fulghum Paperweight by Stephen Fry What if This Were Enough? by Heather Havrilesky Geek Wisdom by Stephen H. Segal