This brilliant and hilarious new collection of essays is offered by the award-winning author of the bestselling Infinite Jest. nDo lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updikes deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? n David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of John McCains 2000 presidential race, plunging into the wars between dictionary writers, or confronting the Worlds 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.n