A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace
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The author interviewed David Foster Wallace for *Rolling Stone* magazine over five days at the end of Wallace's book tour for *Infinite Jest* in 1996.
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I had weird deja vu reading this because it's basically an expanded version of the article David Lipsky wrote for Rolling Stone after DFW's death. Actually I kept thinking my Kindle was skipping around or something and then I finally realized that I had already read parts of this. Anyway, it's pretty much just the transcripts of the tapes Lipsky recorded while he was following DFW around on his Infinite Jest book tour. If that sounds like something you would like, you would probably like this.
A very interesting style of biography about a road trip with one of my favs, David Foster Wallace. Reminds me of vérité-style documentaries which tells a small story that acts as a microcosm for a person's larger essence, involving the storyteller in the act of storytelling.
Provides a lot of context to DFW's literature up until Infinite Jest.
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