Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with DFW
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I'm pretty positive both Sutpen & pyrocow & perhaps others here have been all over this book since its release last year and spoken of it elsewhere, but I just grabbed it yesterday at a Borders going out of business sale for a paltry $2.99, and was up till 3:30 last night devouring it.
It's the most fascinating, revealing interview with DFW I've ever read. David Lipsky got the dream assignment of spending literally five complete days with Wallace, 24-7, on the last leg of his March '96 book tour for Infinite Jest, and he had his tape recorder rolling nonstop.
As time permits, I'd like to post excerpts & observations and welcome those of yours too familiar with the book. I'd like to also, eventually, itemize each "cultural product mentioned" in the book -- it's the title of what serves as a sort of appendix to the book -- as that section alone is worth the price of admission, imo.
For starters, here's an awesome early quote from the book: It's DFW on watching lots of television waiting for an airplane:
It was "an orgy of spectation".
touchstone for the book: Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace.
It's the most fascinating, revealing interview with DFW I've ever read. David Lipsky got the dream assignment of spending literally five complete days with Wallace, 24-7, on the last leg of his March '96 book tour for Infinite Jest, and he had his tape recorder rolling nonstop.
As time permits, I'd like to post excerpts & observations and welcome those of yours too familiar with the book. I'd like to also, eventually, itemize each "cultural product mentioned" in the book -- it's the title of what serves as a sort of appendix to the book -- as that section alone is worth the price of admission, imo.
For starters, here's an awesome early quote from the book: It's DFW on watching lots of television waiting for an airplane:
It was "an orgy of spectation".
touchstone for the book: Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace.
