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“Not long after Infinite Jest was published, David Lipsky headed out to the Midwest and joined David Foster Wallace's last leg of his book tour for several days worth of traveling and interviewing, with the initial result being an article for Rolling Stone. Fast forward to the present, with Wallace dead, having killed himself, and Lipsky sitting on the numerous tapes of that road trip many years ago. What follows is pretty much a transcript of what was said, and what they were doing, while the interviews were going on.
Although Of Course is therefore an important document for anyone looking to understand Wallace better, especially before, during, and shortly after his magnum opus was written. Lipsky periodically interjects with observations from the present day within brackets. I would have preferred, rather, graphs rather than comments, as I found them distracting. Otherwise, good book on such a fascinating yet tragic talent.”
missed wrote this review Wednesday, May 12, 2010.
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