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'We've Sort of Become Friends': The Original Tapes from David Foster Wallace's '96 Book Tour

13 Aug 2015

17m

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The film The End of the Tour dramatizes the 1996 road trip between Rolling Stone writer David Lipsky and author David Foster Wallace, capturing a pivotal moment following the publication of Infinite Jest. Lipsky, the author of the source book Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself, examines the inherent tensio...