STORY Teller - Series 2 - Special Preview

The Wind in the Willows - The River Bank
Jack-in-the-Box
Campbell the Travelling Cat
Arthur the Lazy Ant
Dragon Child
The Magic Porridge Pot
Lobster Quadrille

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Consider the Lobster

Novelist Wallace (Infinite Jest) might just be the smartest essayist writing today. His topics are various—this new collection treats porn, sports autobiographies and the vagaries of English usage, among others—his perspective always slightly askew and his observations on point. Wallace is also frustrating to read. This arises from a few habits that have elevated him to the level of both cause célèbre and enfant terrible in the world of letters. For one thing, he uses abbrs. w/r/t just about everything without warning or, most of the time, context. For another, he inserts long footnotes and parenthetical asides that by all rights should be part of the main texts.