Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays

A collection of David Foster Wallace's witty and deeply observant essays exploring everything from lobster festivals and politics to the nature of human suffering, from the bestselling author of Infinite Jest.

"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 vi...