“The Process of Being Celebritified”: David Foster Wallace and Lipsky on Award Tour

Although Of Course You End Up Being Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace by David Lipsky 320 pp, Broadway Books, paperback, $16.99 Posted by Nick Curley David Lipsky calls his latest book a DVD commentary track for Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace’s very long masterpiece that returned the phrase “magnum opus” to our lexicon.  This is the down and dirty print version of a five day series of interviews Lipsky conducted with Wallace for a Rolling Stone profile.  […]

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Indexing: Alexander Chee, Ben Greenman, David Lipsky, and a Bludgeoning from the New York Times!

Each week, Vol. 1 editors band together as one to discuss their week among literature and the written word.  This is the place to hear about all the best that they’ve thumbed through, bookmarked, lauded, and consumed in the last seven days.  This is where “praise” hits the blogosphere bong and becomes “high praise”.  This, dear reader, is Indexing. Tobias  Carroll A number of smart people had said good things to me about Alexander Chee’s Edinburgh. Now that I’ve read […]

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