Consider the Lobster

Consider the Lobster and Other Essays is a collection of essays by novelist David Foster Wallace. It is also the title of one of the essays, which was published in Gourmet magazine in 2004. The title alludes to Consider the Oyster by M. F. K. Fisher.

Content

The list of essays is as follows:
;"Big Red Son"
; "Certainly the End of Something or Other, One Would Sort of Have to Think"
; "Some Remarks on Kafka's Funniness from Which Probably Not Enough Has Been Removed"
; "Authority and American Usage"
; "The View from Mrs. Thompson's"
; "How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart"
; "Up, Simba"
; "Consider the Lobster"
; "Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky"
; "Host"

Audiobook

An audiobook, read by Wallace himself, was published in 2005 by Time Warner Audiobooks. The three-CD set contains complete readings of the following essays: "Consider the Lobster", "The View from Mrs. Thompson's", "Big Red Son" and "How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart". An expanded edition containing all of the stories was published by Hachette Audio in 2017 with narration by both Wallace and Robert Petkoff.