(In one suitably Seinfeldesque aside, Wallace confesses to losing friendships over his inability to end conversations gracefully.) The only constant is Wallace's voice, which retains an everyman quality - he grew up and lives in the Midwest - even while proving that the author is something of a mess, psychologically speaking. His topics are as far-flung as in his previous nonfiction collection, 1997's A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again. Wallace's latest book, Consider the Lobster, stirs the pot with 10 lively nonfiction essays and literary critiques. A guy who wants to take you out of your shell, even if it means dropping you in boiling water. Then consider, by contrast, David Foster Wallace, footnote-dropping essayist and author of the novel Infinite Jest. scavenging whatever dross the cultural tides wash over him. Consider the slacker, or at least his caricature: shielded from the world by a carapace as ill-fitting as the smirk on a 7-year-old's face.
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