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Consider the lobster and other essays / David Foster Wallace.

Wallace, David Foster.
2006
814.54 W188c 2006
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Title
Consider the lobster and other essays / David Foster Wallace.
Author
Wallace, David Foster.
Spine Title
Consider the lobster
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
0316156116
9780316156110
9780316013321
0316013323
Imprint
New York : Little, Brown, c2006.
Language
English
Description
343 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
814.54 W188c 2006
System Control No.
(OCoLC)67290491
(OCoLC)67290491
Summary
For this collection, Wallace immerses himself in the three-ring circus that is the presidential race in order to document one of the most vicious campaigns in recent history. Later he strolls from booth to booth at a lobster festival in Maine and risks life and limb to get to the bottom of the lobster question. Then he wheedles his way into an L.A. radio studio, armed with tubs of chicken, to get the behind-the-scenes view of a conservative talk show featuring a host with an unnatural penchant for clothing that looks good only on the radio. Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a sick sense of humor? What is John Updike's deal anyway? And who won the Adult Video News' Female Performer of the Year Award the same year Gwyneth Paltrow won her Oscar? Wallace answers these questions and more.--From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note
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
Host.
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