Oh, oh hi.
Required reading for those making the trip to the mid-Coast, here is David Foster Wallace's magnificent article published in Gourmet several years back, a fascinating ethnographic study of the towns spanning from Rockland to Belfast. Foster Wallace, apparently, disdained his talent as a non-fiction writer. Fiction was harder, and therefore better, and so he forced himself to write novels instead of resting on his laurels as an essayist, and was almost always unhappy. He was a remarkable essayist, as this article attests.
Either click this link:
2000s Archive: Gourmet.com
or copy and paste the following into your browser:
http://www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000s/2004/08/consider_the_lobster
Belfast Yards and what it might be
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