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The Last Interview And Other Conversations (2012)

by David Foster Wallace(Favorite Author)

3.85 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1612192068 (ISBN13: 9781612192062)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Melville House

review 1: DNF at 54%I enjoy David Foster Wallace's writing. His speech, however, is quite different -- it is less clever, less thoughtful, less interesting. Maybe the fault is in my expectations, but if you are looking for a different and much more ordinary side of Wallace, you will like this more than I did.This collection is clearly capitalizing off of Wallace's celebrity, and it seems the content is second to the speaker. Had he not been famous, this collection would likely not have been published. However, fandom can make the mundane details about another person feel riveting, and I expect some people will be very interested by some of the trivial questions (e.g. "Any particular configuration of beard or bandana or glasses? It seems to change over time"). For heavier stuff, stic... morek with his writing.Who knows, maybe the last 80% is quite good. It's never fair to rate and review a book without finishing.
review 2: This was a quick read that suffered slightly from a lack of contextualization (w/r/t where and/or when the interview takes place, what reading Wallace just came back from, what he may have been working on at the time etc.), but also illuminated a lot of the thoughts behind the themes I've noticed in the work of his I've read so far (and have become thoroughly obsessed with). Worth the couple extra hours to read through probably only if you've already dedicated the thousands of hours necessary to all of the works that are mentioned/discussed in the interviews, and only then if you're still interested. less

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