Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace By David Lipsky

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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, STARRING JASON SEGAL AND JESSE EISENBERG, DIRECTED BY JAMES PONSOLDTAn indelible portrait of David Foster Wallace, by turns funny and inspiring, based on a five-day trip with award-winning writer David Lipsky during Wallace’s Infinite Jest tour In David Lipsky’s view, David Foster Wallace was the best young writer in America. Wallace’s pieces for Harper’s magazine in the ’90s were, according to Lipsky, “like hearing for the first time the brain voice of everybody I knew: Here was how we all talked, experienced, thought. It was like smelling the damp in the air, seeing the first flash from a storm a mile away. You knew something gigantic was coming.”Then Rolling Stone sent Lipsky to join Wallace on the last leg of his book tour for Infinite Jest, the novel that made him internationally famous. They lose to each other at chess. They get iced-in at an airport. They dash to Chicago to catch a make-up flight. They endure a terrible reader’s escort in Minneapolis. Wallace does a reading, a signing, an NPR appearance. Wallace gives in and imbibes titanic amounts of hotel television (what he calls an “orgy of spectation”). They fly back to Illinois, drive home, walk Wallace’s dogs. Amid these everyday events, Wallace tells Lipsky remarkable things—everything he can about his life, how he feels, what he thinks, what terrifies and fascinates and confounds him—in the writing voice Lipsky had come to love. Lipsky took notes, stopped envying him, and came to feel about him—that grateful, awake feeling—the same way he felt about Infinite Jest. Then Lipsky heads to the airport, and Wallace goes to a dance at a Baptist church.A biography in five days, Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself is David Foster Wallace as few experienced this great American writer. Told in his own words, here is Wallace’s own story, and his astonishing, humane, alert way of looking at the world; here are stories of being a young writer—of being young generally—trying to knit together your ideas of who you should be and who other people expect you to be, and of being young in March of 1996. And of what it was like to be with and—as he tells it—what it was like to become David Foster Wallace."If you can think of times in your life that you’ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they were valuable as human beings. The ability to do that with ourselves. To treat ourselves the way we would treat a really good, precious friend. Or a tiny child of ours that we absolutely loved more than life itself. And I think it’s probably possible to achieve that. I think part of the job we’re here for is to learn how to do it. I know that sounds a little pious."—David Foster Wallace

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I just finished watching the film THE END OF THE TOUR. It was my third or fourth viewing (of this excellent film) and each time I come away a bit depressed, saddened by the reality of DFW’s passing. I think David Foster Wallace was a genius, something a man of his insecurities wouldn’t like hearing, but it’s true. And it pains me to think of the great novels he still harbored in that mind. Actor Jason Segel brings DFW to life on the screen for 90 plus minutes in that film, speaking the very words David Lipsky recorded during his road trip with DFW on that final book tour for his novel INFINITE JEST: this is the book, Lipsky’s book, on which the film is based.Back in 1996, writer David Lipsky is sent by Rolling Stone to join David Foster Wallace on the final leg of his INFINITE JEST book tour, to get to know the man who has just become internationally famous for his acclaimed 1,000-plus page novel. ALTHOUGH OF COURSE YOU END UP BECOMING YOURSELF is the transcription of the tapes from those days on the road with DFW.I supposed you’d have to be something of a DFW admirer to enjoy this book -- I mean, to really enjoy it, and since a lot of it entails discussions about INFINITE JEST, and what DFW was trying to say in that novel, having read INFINITE JEST would also be a prerequisite for full enjoyment of Lipsky’s book. What DFW makes clear in his conversations with Lipsky is that INFINITE JEST is about entertainment, about how entertainment is on a continuum of addictions which we, as Americans, seem peculiarly susceptible, TV, in particular. DFW envisions in IJ a near future where a video exists which is so entertaining that it holds the viewer in a reverie so powerful that he dies from starvation and sleep deprivation -- the viewer literally cannot stop watching. This is all told, of course, in Wallace’s unique prose style -- it’s comedy, science fiction, a foretelling.I loved BECOMING YOURSELF because I loved DFW’s writing, and reading his words -- the words from DFW the writer and the man, not a character in one of his novels -- is about as close to a conversation with him as I’ll ever get. This book, for that reason alone, is a treasure.

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