Taking the David Foster Wallace magical mystery tour - Chicago Reader
It stars Jason Segel as the late author and Jesse Eisenberg as Lipsky, who was sent by Rolling Stone to profile Wallace in 1996 as the late novelist promoted Infinite Jest. Surely Wallace would have cringe at the idea of Wallace the movie character, right. His self-conscious desire not to become such a character might be one reason why he lived the prime of his life in central Illinois, as detailed in Craig Fehrman's August 2012 Reader feature " A portrait of David Foster Wallace as a midwestern... " Fehrman's piece examines how the Land of Lincoln shaped Wallace's work and provides a mild rebuke to D. T. Max's biography Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story. As Fehrman notes, Wallace became the most influential writer of his generation while living in the midwest, where he was also raised. He returned to Illinois in 1993 to take a teaching job at Illinois State University in Bloomington-Normal while working on the final draft of Infinite Jest. Source: www.chicagoreader.com
