Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
This was a good interview. I finished it right after the D.T. Max biography of Wallace so a lot of the biographical information was repeated. Also the interview was so long that some of the points and stories are covered twice at least. I am very glad I read it. Wallace comes across as more of a regular guy and less of a tortured writer. I'd highly recommend it to readers of Infinite Jest or Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. An interesting "behind the scenes" look at one of the greatest writers of our day. Having read most of his work, I was eager to read anything else by, or about, DFW. And to some extent, reading his conversations with Lipsky was enjoyable. At the same time, it did feel a little voyeuristic - as if I wasn't meant to read these conversations - even though Wallace knew he was being recorded, and even though his family gave this publication its blessing. After a while, I began to learn too many details of Wallace's life that detracted from my very positive impression of him, even though I was well aware of his complexities and struggles before reading Lipsky's work. Ultimately, I put the book down without having finished.
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This is another good way to see another side of David Foster Wallace. Read this book.
—Poppy
