Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
Author: David Foster Wallace
Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike’s deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of a vicious presidential race, plunging into the wars betwe….Read More
15 Books Similar to Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
In his startling and singular new short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence. Venturing inside minds and landscapes that… Continue Reading
The Partly Cloudy Patriot
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The Pale King
The agents at the IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois, appear ordinary enough to newly arrived trainee David Foster Wallace. But as he immerses himself in a routine so… Continue Reading Posted in: Classic American Literature, Classic Literature & Fiction, David Foster, Fiction, Illinois, Wallace
Random Family
One of the best works of investigative journalism in years, Random Family tells the story of growing up in the Latino ghettos of the Bronx, a story of drug-dealers, young… Continue Reading Posted in: Biography, Fiction, Urban Poor
The Broom of the System
The mysterious disappearance of her great-grandmother and twenty-five other elderly inmates from a Shaker Heights nursing home has left Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman emotionally stranded on the edge of the Great… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Humorous Literary Fiction, Literary Satire Fiction, Missing Persons, Ohio Cleveland
Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
A great work of art, radiant and rapturous, affirming the power of love and imagination' The New York Times Book ReviewAda or Ardor is a romance that follows Ada from… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, Incest, Love Stories
Girl with Curious Hair
In these stories, the author renders the bizarre normal and the absurd hilarious, from the eerily real, almost holographic evocations of historical figures, to overtelevised game-show hosts and late-night comedians.… Continue Reading Posted in: American Literature, Literary Satire Fiction, Manners And Customs, Satire, Social Life And Customs
White Noise
Jack Gladney, who is chairman of the department of Hitler studies at Blacksmith College, is afraid of death. So is Babette, who 'gathers and tends the children'. Also afraid of… Continue Reading Posted in: 1945, American Writers, Fear Of Death, Fiction In English
V.
The wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men—one looking for something he has lost, the other with nothing much to lose—and "V.," the unknown woman of… Continue Reading Posted in: Action & Adventure Fiction, General, Psychological Fiction, United States
Pale Fire
The American poet John Shade is dead. His last poem, 'Pale Fire', is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles… Continue Reading Posted in: Parodies, Poetry, Poets
Infinite Jest
"Infinite Jest" is a movie so entertaining and addictive, anyone who watches it loses all desire to do anything else. Individuals, organizations and governments vie to obtain the master copy,… Continue Reading Posted in: American Fiction, Humorous Stories
Oblivion: Stories
Each new book confirms and extends his genius, and this new short story collection is no exception. In the stories that make up OBLIVION, David Foster Wallace conjoins the rawest,… Continue Reading Posted in: American Fiction, Humorous Stories
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