Lobster tale lands writer in hot water

Imagine that you are the editor of Gourmet magazine and you nail down the allusive and sometimes incomprehensible David Foster Wallace ("probably the most important novelist of his generation" -- The Boston Globe) to write an article for you. The two of you bat around a few ideas and you settle on … the Maine Lobster Festival. (Full Article: 707 Words)

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