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After the suicide of David Foster Wallace in September 2008, David Lipsky returned to the taped transcripts of an extended five-day interview he had conducted with Wallace while on the book tour that publicized the novel that made him a literary sensation, 1996's Infinite Jest. Initially intended to form the basis of an article for Rolling Stone, the project was eventually abandoned and the interview remained unpublished until now.
In Although of Course You End up Becoming Yourself, Lipsky takes the bold step of transcribing the tapes directly onto the page. Notes of surrounding noises and environments are often included (Wallace's dogs play a major role), although for the majority of the three hundred pages the only things present on the page are the voices of Wallace and Lipsky. What is the motive...