He's like an overly enthusiastic high school teacher trying to wow his kids with the idea that literature (or whatever else he's obsessed with) can be fun. It's a typical Wallace performance, at once highly entertaining and highly unsatisfying. He (Wallace) also writes about himself (and his literary peers) not writing about Important Questions, ramming his point home by interspersing throughout the essay said Important Questions, uncommented upon and tucked safely inside asterisks, in uneasy juxtaposition with long, digressive footnotes and words such as "goopy" and "icky." 's Dostoevsky" appears near the end of David Foster Wallace's new collection, "Consider the Lobster." In it, Wallace is writing about someone (Joseph Frank) writing about someone (
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