This is Water."
This author worries about carnies who spin his "Native Companion" friend around on the Zipper so they can look up her skirt in an essay about the Illinois State Fair. Another essay by this author includes a footnote railing against the "Professional Smile" and describes the mean-spirited hypnotist Nigel Ellery and the waiter Tibor. This author described the stress of "stay[ing] conscious and alive" despite "petty, frustrating crap" in a commencement speech titled (*) "This is Water." An essay by this author begins by listing things he has seen, including "500 upscale Americans danc[ing] the Electric Slide" and "intensities of blue beyond very bright blue." One of his essays contemplates the ethics of boiling animals alive at a Maine festival. For 10 points, name this author of "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" and "Consider the Lobster," who also wrote the doorstopper Infinite Jest.
This author worries about carnies who spin his "Native Companion" friend around on the Zipper so they can look up her skirt in an essay about the Illinois State Fair.
David Foster Wallace [or DFW, prompt on “Dallas Fort Worth”]