Check out Marie Mundaca's review of David Lipsky's Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself : A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace over at The Hipster Book Club :
What most readers will get from the book is how funny Wallace could be. Most of his writing, especially the nonfiction work, was humorous, but that was overshadowed by the vocabulary and the long sentences. But as a regular guy talking, Wallace was hilarious. For example, when the clerk at a hotel says to Lipsky, “And you have a room with twins,” Wallace says, “Yes, Anita and Consuela.” Or riffing on the illustrations on an airplane’s safety guide, he says, “ ‘How interesting. An oxygen mask has dropped down.’ Look, her eyes are totally unafraid. ‘I think I’ll put it on. Why—no. I’ll put one on my child.’”
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