Consider the Lobster and Other Essays - Paperback

David Foster Wallace's ten essays: the Maine Lobster Festival, the adult entertainment industry, the legacy of Dostoevsky. Wallace at his most brilliantly digressive.

These essays show Wallace doing what he does best: combining exhaustive research, footnoted brilliance, humor, and ruthless honesty about the limits of his own thinking. He's funny and learned and never self-satisfied. Every essay opens onto something larger. This is essential contemporary nonfiction.

Faculty assign this in writing workshops, literature seminars, and American studies courses. It's the book that teaches you how to think on the page.

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- Author: David Foster Wallace
- Paperback
- 10 essays on culture, industry, literature
- Literary collections and essays