David Foster Wallace - Consider the Lobster

Links to free and legal online copies of the essays in David Foster Wallace's book, Consider the Lobster. Hooray for the Internet Archive.

  1. "Big Red Son" Chapter excerpt via the Internet Archive Wayback machine.
  2. "Certainly the End of Something or Other, One Would Sort of Have to Think" Originally published as "Champion Literary Phallocrat, Drops One; Is This Finally the End for Magnificent Narcissists?" in the October 12, 1997 issue of New York Observer.
  3. "Some Remarks on Kafka's Funniness from Which Probably Not Enough Has Been Removed" PDF, originally published as "Laughing with Kafka" in the July 1998 issue of Harper's Magazine, via the Internet Archive Wayback machine.
  4. "Authority and American Usage" PDF, originally published as "Tense Present: Democracy, English and Wars over Usage" in the April 2001 issue of Harper's Magazine, via the Internet Archive Wayback machine.
  5. "The View from Mrs. Thompson's" Rolling Stone magazine, via the Internet Archive Wayback machine.
  6. "How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart" Not available online.
  7. "Up, Simba" Originally published in the April 2000 issue of Rolling Stone as "The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys And The Shrub".
  8. "Consider the Lobster" Gourmet magazine archives.
  9. "Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky" Not available online.
  10. "Host" The Atlantic magazine.

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