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SUMMARY:"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 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

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Author

David Lipsky

Publisher

Random House, Incorporated

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307592439

Category

travel

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

3.89 / 5 (6,319 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14