I read
13 months ago
the first essay in the late David Foster Wallace’s Consider the Lobster last night. It’s about the porn industry, specifically about Wallace’s visit to the Adult Video News Awards, porn’s answer to the Academy Awards gala. The essay’s brilliant and human, non-moralistic and yet very critical of aspects of the industry that clearly warrant criticism. Definitely good reading for women as well as men, that is, for all us people trying to understand the mysteries of the human condition.
It made me love men who’d think and feel and write and question like that.
