01841cam a2200313 i 4500 10227013 TxGeo 20051228120000.0 080829t20072006||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780316013321 trade pbk. 0316013323 trade pbk. TxGeo rda Wallace, David Foster. Consider the lobster and other essays / David Foster Wallace. Consider the lobster. First Back Bay paperback edition. New York, NY : Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Co., 2007. ©2006. 342 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. 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. 20180430. Essays 21st century. American essays. QS5