David Foster Wallace reads "Consider the Lobster" (on the 2003 Maine Lobster Festival)
Why Hacker News recommends it
Linked in threads about lobster welfare as an easy way to take in Wallace's essay.
What it is
A reading of David Foster Wallace's essay Consider the Lobster, about the 2003 Maine Lobster Festival and the ethics of boiling lobsters alive. The reading runs about 50 minutes.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2018 to 2020.
What Hacker News said
Recommends sharkweek · 2018-02 · on “In Switzerland, it's now illegal to boil a live lobster”
Love that whole series of essays in the Consider the Lobster collection - you can also listen to several of them on YouTube and I have to say Wallace’s tone when reading the essays makes them more enjoyable [this video]
Recommends unmole · 2019-03 · on “The Weird World of Vegan YouTube Stars”
> They don't have brains or central nervous systems, I would very highly recommend reading David Foster Wallace's Consider the Lobster . You can either buy the book of the same name which includes other essays or here's a PDF of the original article: [LINK] and here's a video of DFW reading it out: [this video]
Cites abductee_hg · 2020-11 · on “My Priceless Summer on a Maine Lobster Boat”
WOW that's pretty tonedeaf. remember David Foster Wallace? "Consider the Lobster"? Here's a reminder: [this video]