Nick Jones’s Reviews > Consider the Lobster and Other Essays > Status Update

The first essay “Big Red Son” is a comprehensive narrative of DFW’s attendance at the Adult Video News Awards. He writes with a tongue in cheek cynicism that is wholly justified against the setting. It’s gross and funny and indicative of the heights of extreme desensitization America reached by 1998 — and that continued to grow thereafter to the catastrophic level we see today