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Cover art for ALTHOUGH OF COURSE YOU END UP BECOMING YOURSELF
NONFICTION
Released: April 13, 2010

"Still, a nicely gossipy inside view of a writer's world and a beautiful yet anguished mind."
My Dinner with Andre in a rental car--Rolling Stone contributing editor Lipsky (Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point, 2003, etc.) turns in a splintered portrait of the late, great novelist. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: April 15, 2011

"Unfinished or no, it's worth reading this long, partly shaped novel just to get at its best moments, and to ponder what Wallace, that excellent writer, would have done with the book had he had time to finish it himself."
Rollicking postmodern romp, by the late cult-favorite novelist and essayist Wallace (with help from an editor), through the bowels of the IRS. Read full book review >