Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself - David Lipsky

As one who reads liner notes (or at least did when they existed) and listens to DVD commentary tracks, I looked forward to this book for any insight it might have had on Infinite Jest, a behind the scenes look on how anyone could have written that book - the mechanics involved, the thought process, the dedication. There was a little of that in this book, but it was mostly about DFW at a particular point in his life - the newly crowned King of American Fiction, this particular moment in his life made all the much sadder by the perspective of 15 years and a suicide later.
 DFW never wrote anything as major as Infinite Jest again (though, really, no one has) and there seems to be some recognition on his part that he never will in this story, as he spends a few days with Lipsky, a novelist turned Rolling Stone contributor. In the end, this book just makes me want to read Infinite Jest again.