Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

by David Foster Wallace

US English classes do far more to retard dialectal talent than to cultivate it.

in the warm months Bloomington is a lot like a seaside community except here the ocean is corn,

Great athletes usually turn out to be stunningly inarticulate about just those qualities and experiences that constitute their fascination.

it has to make you stop and think about how starved voters are for just some minimal level of genuineness in the men who want to “lead” and “inspire” them.

and people who believe the Second Amendment entitles them to own grenade launchers.

FMD seems like the first fiction writer to understand how deeply some people love their own suffering,