The End of the Tour

It’s a big, scary, lonely old world out there, ladies and gents, full of nasty and uncomfortable things like trigonometry, team building exercises, and pineapple pizza. If you’re looking for refuge from any of those things, you may find comfort in the pages of a book, but not necessarily anything by David Foster Wallace, the literary titan whose fiction and non-fiction work was frequently heavy of heart and long of wind. Morose as his style was, DFW remains a vaunted figure in the world of the written word, so it’s no surprise that, after his tragic and untimely death, people decided to make movies about him, such as The End of the Tour, a 2015 character study directed by James Ponsoldt and based on the interviews and conversations collected in Although of Course You End up Becoming Yourself by David Lipsky. The End of the Tour follows Davi ...