Fiction
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
A Back Bay paperback of David Foster Wallace's 2005 essay collection, covering the Maine Lobster Festival, John McCain's 2000 campaign, lexicography, and Kafka's sense of humor. Wallace's footnotes proliferate; his sentences unwind; his moral attention is relentless. The cover is the standard Back Bay trade format, with the clean typography that signals you are buying a collection that started in magazines. Back Bay reissued it as a paperback original after the hardcover had done its work. Ideal reader: the reader who wants essays that think harder than the reader asked them to, or the journalist who needs to be reminded that a magazine assignment can become literature.
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