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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