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...Sending Wallace to the Maine Lobster Festival to write a straight food piece was a bit naive - like sending Hunter Thompson to Las Vegas and expecting a few paragraphs about hotel amenities. Wallace attended the festival, but instead of writing about lobsters as food he mused about them as living beings in a piece that, after some entertaining diversions through marine biology and colonial history, asks, "a question that's all but unavoidable at the World's Largest Lobster Cooker, and may arise in kitchens across the U.S.: Is it all right to boil a sentient creature alive just...
...asked me when I was 18 what I'd like to do with my life, I'd have said I'd like to write a novel at some point. But then I sort of fell into journalism. I guess sometime after Killing Yourself to Live, I kinda wanted to write long form fiction, and I had an idea for a story and I decided to try. This is retrospective: I've been asked this question many times, and I keep coming up with interesting ways to make up answers...
...harder than I anticipated. I can write non-fiction much, much faster...
...less. Of course I want people to like the book, but at the same time, that matters less to me than it did in the beginning. You write the first book and it's just exciting that the book exists. The only people who talk about your first book are people who like it; no one's going to review a book they've never heard of to say it's bad. You write the second book and everything is different. At first, you'd think, if nobody buys this book, nobody will ever publish me again. Now that...
Meanwhile, in the time it's taken me to write this, the sky has clouded over...