“And … if the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is. Is to wake the reader up to stuff that the reader’s been aware of all the time.”
David Foster Wallace says this early on in the road trip David Lipsky took with him in 1996 for the latter to write a big piece for Rolling Stone on the post-Infinite Jest hype. This book is a direct transcription of seemingly every single thing these two Davids said to each other over the course of three days. Some of it’s great, as above, and below: Continue reading Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself