The Master and Margarita: Book Covers from Around the World

Mikhail Bulgakov’s political-satire-as-surrealist-fantasy novel, The Master and Margarita, has served as the inspiration for cover art nearly as inspired and brilliant as the book itself…

David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster And Other Essays

Man, what a genius. What a goddamn, motherfucking genius. David Foster Wallace was a writer, thinker, and observer of the highest order. Consider the Lobster And Other Essays may not be his most critically acclaimed work (although it still rates very high, after all this is Wallace we’re talking about), but for me, it’s his best. Essays are, by design, a more personal, direct style of prose and reading Wallace’s are the closest any of us are going to get to having a conversation with him. One needs to experience his essays in order to more fully appreciate his fiction (regardless of what literary conventional wisdom would have you believe).

You can read “Host” here, DFW’s  brilliant profile of radio host John Ziegler and the culture of American talk radio.