David Lipsky, the author of Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself, the book which has been adapted into a feature film, The End Of The Tour, joins Brian to talk about the accuracy of the late David Foster Wallace’s portrayal in the movie, the lasting personal effects those five days have had on his life, and whether or not meeting Mr. Wallace is the reason he hasn’t published a book of fiction ever since.

Plus, Brian and David discuss Jonathan Franzen’s response to Mr. Wallace’s death, the calculated trajectories of great artists such as Quentin Tarantino, and how the real goal of David Foster Wallace’s work was to make people come alive.

Please stick around after the show for a bonus segment from Brian’s conversation with David Lipsky.

The End of the Tour is now playing in select cities and will open in more theaters across the country on August 7th.

 

People mentioned:

David Lipsky

Glenn Kenny

James Ponsoldt

John Barth

John Updike

Quentin Tarantino

Bonnie Nadell

Mary Karr

Jonathan Franzen

Sam Snead

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Mark Costello

Paul Thomas Anderson

Wes Anderson

Martin Scorsese

Nicole Holofcener

Walter Kirn

Colin Meloy (The Decemberists)

Philip Roth

Walt Whitman

Sheryl Crow

Jesse Eisenberg

 

Topics mentioned:

The End of the Tour

Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself by David Lipsky

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

A Movable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami

Farther Away by Jonathan Franzen

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Best American Short Stories, 1986 by Raymond Carver

The Little Red Book by Harvey Penick

Robert Rodriguez interviews Quentin Tarantino

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Max Perkins: Editor of Genius by A. Scott Berg

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman

Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway

The Simpsons

Absolutely American by David Lipsky

Best American Magazine Writing, 2009 by The American Society of Magazine Editors

Bryan Garner's interview on The Moment: 5/18/15

Noma

Brian Wilson (Beach Boys) on Sgt. Peppers

Reservoir Dogs

Pulp Fiction

Inglourious Basterds

Annie Hall

Manhattan

The Anxiety of Influence by Harold Blume

Me & QT: What's Behind Tarantino Ditching His Leaked 'Hateful Eight' Script? by Brian Koppelman

Rounders

Knockaround Guys

Diner

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace

People Like That Are The Only People Here by Lorrie Moore

10:04 by Ben Lerner

Amadeus

A.O. Scott reviews The End of the Tour

Letters to Vera by Vladamir Nabakov

An Author Asks That You 'Consider the Lobster' by David Lipsky

David Lipsky on The Late David Foster Wallace on WNYC's The Takeaway

Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace

Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football by Rich Cohen

The Art Fair by David Lipsky

Three Thousand Dollars: Stories by David Lipsky

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace

The Deer Park by Norman Mailer

Quack This Way by Bryan Garner

A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore

Girl With Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace

"Blood on the Tracks" by Bob Dylan

David Foster Wallace reads on Audible

Idiocracy 

 

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