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

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David Lipsky interviews DFW for Rolling Stone and spends 5 days with him

Lipsky, D. (2010). Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace. Broadway.

Broadway, 2010. 320 pages. Paperback. 9780307592439

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Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace by David Lipsky March 17, 2017 - March 18, 2017 (read/owned-ebooks/literary-criticism/david-foster-wallace)

Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace
by David Lipsky

March 17, 2017 - March 18, 2017 (read/owned-ebooks/literary-criticism/david-foster-wallace)