Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

An English major's wet dream. If nothing else, DFW's review of the dictionary is inspiring and provocative for anyone interested in the politics of language and usage.

However, I wouldn't recommend this to anyone who is not a fervent lover of words, writing, literary criticism, and the like. Otherwise, it's probably too dense and uninteresting. Even I found myself skimming - particularly the piece about McCain, as I'm just not super interested in political pieces, and it was quite long (though I still found the writing itself to be engaging and superb).