sports autobiographies then flooding the market. Originally published in the August 30, 1992 issue of The Philadelphia Inquirer. "Up, Simba" Wallace writes about John McCain's 2000 presidential campaign, riding the bus called "The Straight Talk Express". The title is what a television news cameraman covering the campaign says before hoisting his camera onto his shoulder. Originally published in the April 2000 issue of Rolling Stone as "The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys And The Shrub", and as an e-book through Random House's iPublish imprint; later republished in the context of the 2008 presidential race as "McCain's Promise". The essay won the 2001 National Magazine Award for Feature Writing. "Consider the Lobster" Originally published in the August 2004 issue of Gourmet magazine, this review of the 2003 Maine Lobster Festival generated some controversy among the readers of the culinary magazine. The essay is concerned with the ethics of boiling a creature alive in order to enhance the consumer's pleasure, including a discussion of a lobster's sensory neurons. "Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky" Review of Fyodor Dostoevsky's biography written by Stanford University professor Joseph Frank. Originally titled "Feodor's Guide" and published in the April 9, 1996 issue of The Village Voice. "Host" A profile of John Ziegler, a Los Angeles-based conservative talk radio show host who is obsessed with the O. J. Simpson murder case. Wallace examines the impact of Clear Channel-type media monopolies and the proliferation of talk radio on the way Americans talk, think, and vote. The profile was originally published in the April 2005 issue of The Atlantic, where it can be read online. The 2015 online version republishes the article in a form that recreates the original print version's annotations through interactive web design. Instead accompanying the text with his trademark footnotes, the version of "Host" in Consider the Lobster featured arrows connecting tangential ideas on the page, mimicking the reading experience that online readers of the article might have had. The article was a finalist of the 2006 National Magazine Award for Profile Writing. Critical reception The book received positive reviews from critics. The review aggregator Metacritic reported the book had an average score of 68 out of 100, based on 15 reviews. Audiobook An audiobook, read by Wallace himself, was published in 2005 by Time Warner Audiobooks. The three-CD set contains complete readings of the following essays: "Consider the Lobster", "The View from Mrs. Thompson's", "Big Red Son" and "How