{"id":2443,"date":"2010-08-07T11:00:27","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danversreads.wordpress.com\/?p=2443"},"modified":"2010-08-07T11:00:27","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T16:00:27","slug":"although-of-course-you-end-up-becoming-yourself-a-road-trip-with-david-foster-wallace-david-lipsky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=2443","title":{"rendered":"Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace ~ David Lipsky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/DOCUME%7E1\/ADMINI%7E1\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/moz-screenshot.png\" alt=\"\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/images1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2447\" title=\"images\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/images1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"182\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a>Ah, the pleasures of doing the &#8220;hard work&#8221; in reading. Let David Lipsky guide you on an amazing, intimate and poignant journey with the late writer, David Foster Wallace.<\/p>\n<p>Lipsky has transcribed the tapes of a week-long &#8220;interview&#8221; with DFW during the book tour for his breakthrough work, <em>Infinite Jest<\/em>. Originally planned for Rolling Stone, the article was never published.<\/p>\n<p>What a gift Lipsky gives us in this glimpse into the mind of a &#8220;uniquely brilliant&#8221;\u00a0 writer. Wallace shares his stream of consciousness about writing, culture and himself in a fascinating portrait.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a fan of Wallace&#8217;s work, this book is a must-read and a fitting tribute to this brave, prescient and caring young man. If you haven&#8217;t had the opportunity to read a writer who had the ability, as Lipsky describes, to &#8220;talk in prose&#8221;, this book will inspire you to get your hands on and wrap your mind around everything he wrote. Here Wallace is &#8220;radiantly present&#8221; writes Donna Seaman, in a work that will help to \u00a0 &#8220;sustain Wallace\u2019s masterful and innovative books long into the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, the pleasures of doing the &#8220;hard work&#8221; in reading. Let David Lipsky guide you on an amazing, intimate and poignant journey with the late writer, David Foster Wallace. Lipsky has transcribed the tapes of a week-long &#8220;interview&#8221; with DFW during the book tour for his breakthrough work, Infinite Jest. Originally planned for Rolling Stone,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","category-non-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-Dp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}