Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace

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“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 Wallace on the last leg of his book tour for Infinite Jest, the novel that made him internationally famous. They lose to each other at chess. They get iced-in at an airport. They dash to Chicago to catch a make-up flight. They endure a terrible reader’s escort in Minneapolis. Wallace does a reading, a signing, an NPR appearance. Wallace gives in and imbibes titanic amounts of hotel television (what he calls an “orgy of spectation”). They fly back to Illinois, drive home, walk Wallace’s dogs. Amid these everyday events, Wallace tells Lipsky remarkable things—everything he can about his life, how he feels, what he thinks, what terrifies and fascinates and confounds him—in the writing voice Lipsky had come to love. Lipsky took notes, stopped envying him, and came to feel about him—that grateful, awake feeling—the same way he felt about Infinite Jest. Then Lipsky heads to the airport, and Wallace goes to a dance at a Baptist church.

A biography in five days, Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself is David Foster Wallace as few experienced this great American writer. Told in his own words, here is Wallace’s own story, and his astonishing, humane, alert way of looking at the world; here are stories of being a young writer—of being young generally—trying to knit together your ideas of who you should be and who other people expect you to be, and of being young in March of 1996. And of what it was like to be with and—as he tells it—what it was like to become David Foster Wallace.
David Lipsky is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine.  His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Magazine Writing, The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, and many other publications. He contributes as an essayist to NPR’s All Things Considered, and is the recipient of a Lambert Fellowship, a Media Award from GLAAD, and a National Magazine Award.  He’s the author of the novel The Art Fair, a collection of stories, Three Thousand Dollars, and the bestselling nonfiction book Absolutely American, which was a Time magazine Best Book of the Year.

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书名：Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace

如果你能想到，在你的生命中，你曾经以非凡的正派、爱和纯粹的不感兴趣的关心来对待别人，仅仅因为他们作为人是有价值的。对自己做到这一点的能力。我们需要像对待真正好的、宝贵的朋友那样对待自己。或者是我们的小孩，我们绝对比生命本身更爱他们。我认为很有可能做到这一点。我认为我们在这里的工作的一部分就是学习如何做到这一点。我知道这听起来有点虔诚。
— David Foster Wallace

这是一幅不可磨灭的大卫·福斯特·华莱士的肖像，时而有趣，时而鼓舞人心，取材于华莱士与获奖作家大卫·利普斯基为期五天的旅行。无尽的玩笑 tour

在大卫·利普斯基看来，大卫·福斯特·华莱士是美国最优秀的年轻作家。华莱士的作品 Harper’s 根据利普斯基的说法，90年代的杂志“就像是第一次听到我认识的每个人的大脑声音：这是我们都是如何交谈、体验和思考的。这就像是闻到了空气中的湿气，看到了一英里外暴风雨的第一道闪光。你知道有一件大事要发生了。

Then 滚石他派利普斯基与华莱士一起参加了他的图书巡回演唱会的最后一站。无尽的玩笑，这部小说使他享誉国际。他们在国际象棋中输给了对方。他们在机场被冻坏了。他们急匆匆地赶往芝加哥赶补班航班。在明尼阿波利斯，他们忍受着可怕的读者的护送。华莱士做了一次朗读，一次签名，一次NPR露面。华莱士屈从于大量的酒店电视节目(他称之为“投机狂欢”)。他们飞回伊利诺伊州，开车回家，遛华莱士的狗。在这些日常事件中，华莱士用利普斯基已经爱上的文字声音告诉了利普斯基一些不同寻常的事情–关于他的生活的一切，他的感受，他的想法，什么让他恐惧、着迷和困惑。利普斯基做了笔记，不再嫉妒他，开始对他有一种感恩的、清醒的感觉，就像他对他的感觉一样。无尽的玩笑。然后利普斯基前往机场，华莱士去参加浸礼会教堂的舞会。

A biography in five days, 当然，你最终会成为你自己这就是大卫·福斯特·华莱士，因为很少有人经历过这位伟大的美国作家。用华莱士自己的话来说，这是华莱士自己的故事，以及他惊人的、人道的、警觉的世界观；以下是作为一名年轻作家的故事–总体来说是年轻的–试图将你对自己应该是谁、别人希望你是谁的想法结合在一起，以及1996年3月的年轻。以及和大卫·福斯特·华莱士在一起的感觉–正如他所说–成为大卫·福斯特·华莱士的感觉。
大卫·利普斯基是英国《金融时报》特约编辑滚石他的小说和非小说类作品曾出现在《纽约时报》杂志上。纽约客, 哈珀8217 ; sMagazine, The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Magazine Writing, 《纽约时报》, 《纽约时报》 Book Review，以及许多其他出版物。作为一名散文家，他为NPR的All Things Consired撰稿，并获得了兰伯特奖学金、GLAAD媒体奖和国家杂志奖。他是这部小说的作者 The Art Fair, a collection of stories, 三千美元，和畅销非虚构类书籍。绝对是美国人，这是一种挑战Time magazine Best Book of the Year.