SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, STARRING JASON SEGAL AND JESSE
EISENBERG, DIRECTED BY JAMES PONSOLDT
An 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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