Consider the Lobster

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Consider the Lobster (2005) 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 entire list of essays is as follows:

Big Red Son (originally published in Premiere as "Neither Adult Nor Entertainment" under the pseudonyms Willem R. deGroot and Matt Rundlet)
Certainly the End of Something or Other, One Would Sort of Have to Think (originally published in the New York Observer)
Some Remarks on Kafka's Funniness from Which Probably Not Enough Has Been Removed (originally published in Harper's)
Authority and American Usage (originally published in Harper's)
The View from Mrs. Thompson's (originally published in Rolling Stone)
How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart (originally published in the Philadelphia Inquirer)
Up, Simba (originally published in Rolling Stone)
Consider the Lobster (originally published in Gourmet)
Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky (originally published in the Village Voice Literary Supplement)
Host (originally published in The Atlantic)