Edward Champion of Return of the Reluctant reports back from Book Expo America the details on David Foster Wallace's next essay collection, Consider the Lobster, featuring hot crustaceans, desexualized pornography, and pubescent tennis.
* The book comes out in January 2006.
* It includes "about twelve" essays. (The title essay is, of course, the one that appeared in Gourmet.)
* The infamous "Host" essay will appear.
* There will be an essay that DFW published under a psuedonym where he attended the Adult Video News Awards, confronted his own shame, and contemplated the desexualizaition of sex.
* One essay's on Updike, the other's on Dostoevesky.
* "How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart," the essay about the 14 year old girl tennis player that DFW knew better than any adult, will be there.
And, it looks like the book is already available for pre-order on Amazon.
susannah_breslin
I'm lost
June 2005
JUN 06, 2005 04:56 PM