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Wallace's nonfiction ranges from personal and touching (an article on the day of Sept 11) to dense and impenetrable (longform reviews of a four-volume biography of Dostoevsky and a dictionary of modern English usage) to downright genius. "Consider thWallace's nonfiction ranges from personal and touching (an article on the day of Sept 11) to dense and impenetrable (longform reviews of a four-volume biography of Dostoevsky and a dictionary of modern English usage) to downright genius. "Consider the Lobster" is the title story, commissioned by Gourmet magazine. Gourmet sent Wallace to a lobster festival in rural Maine, expecting a description of the gustatory treats available there. Instead, he got bored of the festival and instead wrote a scholarly examination of whether lobsters feel pain, and ultimately challenged the reader with the moral and ethical imperative of whether it's ok to boil lobsters alive for our own pleasure....more
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