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Wallace confirmed: “The book isn't supposed to be about drugs, getting off drugs,” he confided to David Lipsky.

Considered by many to be the greatest writer of his generation, David Foster Wallace was at the height of his creative powers when he committed suicide in.

Reading David Foster Wallace felt itchy, somehow, like his message was sideways to everyone else's, like he was missing some important point, or.

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Though the interview was never published, Lipsky wrote “The Lost Years & Last Days of David Foster Wallace” for the magazine after the writer's.

Reading David Foster Wallace felt itchy, somehow, like his message was sideways to everyone else's, like he was missing some important point, or....

Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself

2010 memoir by David Lipsky

Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace is a 2010 memoir by David Lipsky about a five-day road trip with the author David Foster Wallace.

It is based upon a Rolling Stone magazine story that received the National Magazine Award.^[1]

Lipsky, a novelist and contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine, recounts his time spent with the author of Infinite Jest at the moment when Wallace realized his work would bring him fame, and that this would change his life.

The book was a National Public Radio Best Book of the Year,^[2] a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice,^[3] and a New York Times bestseller.^[4]

A feature film adaptation entitled The End of the Tour was released in July 2015 to critical acclaim.^[5]^[6]

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