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　　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 between

dictionary writers, or confronting the World's Largest Lobster

Cooker at the annual Maine Lobster Festival, Wallace projects a

quality of thought that is uniquely his and a voice as powerful and

distinct as any in American letters.

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 ProbablyNot Enough Has

Been Removed

Authority and American Usage

The View from Mrs. Thompson's

How TracyAustin Broke My Heart

Up, Simba

　　David Foster Wallace was born in Ithaca, New York, in 1962 and

raised in Illinois, where he was a regionally ranked junior tennis

player. He received bachelor of arts degrees in philosophy and

English from Amherst College and wrote what would become his first

novel, The Broom of the System, as his senior English

thesis. He received a masters of fine arts from University of

Arizona in 1987 and briefly pursued graduate work in philosophy at

Harvard University. His second novel, Infinite Jest, was

published in 1996. Wallace taught creative writing at Emerson

College, Illinois State University, and Pomona College, and

published the story collections Girl with Curious Hair, Brief

Interviews with Hideous Men, and Oblivion and the essay

collections A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again and

Consider the Lobster. He was awarded the MacArthur

Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and a Whiting Writers' Award,

and was appointed to the Usage Panel for The American Heritage

Dictionary of the English Language. He died in 2008. His last

novel, The Pale King, was published in 2011.

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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 between dictionary writers, or confronting the World's Largest Lobster Cooker at the annual Maine Lobster Festival, Wallace projects a quality of thought that is uniquely his and a voice as powerful and distinct as any in American letters.