The End of the Tour

The stories behind these writers are just as fascinating as their most celebrated works.

When you type the words “Jesse Eisenberg bad interview” into Google, you get over 2 million results.

In 1996, Rolling Stone sent journalist and author David Lipsky to travel with David Foster Wallace for the end of his book tour publicizing his great novel Infinite Jest. Lipsky and Wallace spent five days traveling together, and the transcripts of their conversations eventually became the basis of Lipsky’s book Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace