Consider the Lobster, and Other Essays

David Foster Wallace · first published 2005 · ISBN 9780316013321

A collection of ten major essays that span Wallace's intellectual interests from the ethics of boiling lobsters alive at the Maine Lobster Festival to extended profiles of Roger Federer and other athletes, plus pieces on reality television and post-9/11 American consciousness. The title essay uses the visceral question of animal suffering as a springboard for examining how we extend moral consideration to other creatures.