My first exposure to DFW was his essay "The Big Red Son" (http://social.rollins.edu/wpsites/sexwarandplague/files/2012/07/DF-Wallace-Big-Red-Son.pdf http://soci

My first exposure to DFW was his essay "The Big Red Son" (http://social.rollins.edu/wpsites/sexwarandplague/files/2012/07/DF-Wallace-Big-Red-Son.pdf http://social.rollins.edu/wpsites/sexwarandplague/files/2012...) and, boy, what an experience that was! I think that essay is even better than "Consider the Lobster". And if haven't already done so, read his commencement speech to Kenyon College class of 2005, or better listen to it (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CrOL-ydFMI) (Later published as a book titled This is Water). It's a life-enhancing experience.