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The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace's gr... Read all The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite Jest.' The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite Jest.'

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Trivia The song heard on the soundtrack when the film ends is "The Big Ship" by Brian Eno , one of David Foster Wallace 's favorite songs. It was also used for the climax of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015) , another film that premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
Goofs In regards to the scene where Mrs. Gunderson gives Mr. Wallace and Mr. Lipsky a car tour of Minneapolis sites: The Mary Tyler Moore statue on Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis, was not given to the City by TV Land until 2002. Also, it is not legal for cars to drive down Nicollet Mall.

David Foster Wallace : It may be in the old days what was known as a spiritual crisis: feeling as though every axiom in your life turned out to be false... and there was actually nothing. And that you were nothing. And that it's all a delusion and you're so much better than everybody 'cause you can see how this is just a delusion, and you're so much worse because you can't fucking function.

Crazy credits Halfway through the closing credits, there is an extra scene told from the perspective of David Foster Wallace as Lipsky goes to the bathroom to wash out the chewing tobacco. It shows what Wallace did while he was in the bathroom: he speaks privately into the tape recorder.
Connections Featured in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Jason Segel/Amy Sedaris/Alessia Cara (2015)
Soundtracks Sunlight Bathed The Golden Glow Written by Lawrence and Maurice Deebank Performed by Felt Courtesy of Cherry Red Records

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The End of the Tour

2015, Drama, 1h 46m

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Writer and journalist David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) interviews author David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel) for Rolling Stone magazine.

Rating: R (Some Sexual References|Language)

Genre: Drama

Original Language: English

Director: James Ponsoldt

Producer: David Kanter , Matt DeRoss , James Dahl , Mark C. Manuel , Ted O'Neal

Writer: Donald Margulies

Release Date (Theaters): Jul 31, 2015 limited

Release Date (Streaming): Aug 15, 2016

Box Office (Gross USA): $3.0M

Runtime: 1h 46m

Distributor: A24

Production Co: Anonymous Content

Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

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Jesse Eisenberg

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Ron Livingston

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James Ponsoldt

Donald Margulies

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Matt DeRoss

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Darrin Navarro

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Jason Segel shines brightly in the, pleasantly surprising, breakthrough dramatic performance of the year.

Experimenting with one-sentence reviews, and but also plus in the style of this film's subject, the inimitable David Foster Wallace, allows me to say that The End of the Tour is good in like the way that makes high-brow intellectuals, complete with black turtlenecks, white-framed-liberal-free-trade glasses, and Match.com profiles that reference Wittengensteinian praxis and well-researched Proust quotes, think they're sideline-spectators with the howling fantods at genetically superiors' like most significant life-event, but yet also the film fails to achieve full high-ejection, supra-orbitular virtuosity because while we get to know DFW's AM/PM TV-obsessed, like almost stereotypically basically totally-American self-perception, his fame, the thing that keeps him in a state of intra- and interpersonal solipsism and the thing that he's, during the whole Entertainment, like a orange-flashlighted construction worker screaming, howling, imprecating, "No, no, Lipsky, this way is only a carrot, not the brightly-lit Show you think you know!" and the thing that ultimately probably caused him to extinguish his map, is like totally unexplored because, aside from the sycophantic organizers, the people who burden DFW are largely absent and told but yet not shown.

Jason Segel and Jesse Eisenberg star in the powerful character drama The End of the Tour. Based on a novel by Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky, the film follows a five-day interview that Lipsky had with acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace during Wallace's publicity tour for his novel Infinite Jest. Segel and Eisenberg give incredibly good performances and have great chemistry together. And, the discussions that the two have are fascinating; covering a variety of deep issues that are quite thought-provoking. However, the gritty film style can sometimes be distracting (though the rawness does add a certain reality to the scenes). The End of the Tour is an extraordinarily compelling film, and succeeds largely due to its sharp, witty dialog and the earnestness of the performances.

If I hadn't read the book, and if I hadn't found it among a lacklustre movie selection on a transatlantic flight, I'm not sure I'd have watched the movie. Well cast, and well-written, but it's not so well-suited to the screen... And if I, the target audience, didn't really go for it, I'm not sure what the general audience will make of it; that's not to say that every movie has to please everyone, but suffice to say that this one's not for everyone.

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Review: ‘The End of the Tour’ Offers a Tale of Two Davids

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By A.O. Scott

July 30, 2015

“There’s an unhappy paradox about literary biographies,” David Foster Wallace observed in The New York Times Book Review in 2004, in reference to “Borges: A Life.” Readers who pick up such books, drawn by their admiration for a writer’s work, are likely to find themselves distracted and disappointed by a welter of iffy theories and picayune data. In the case of Borges, Wallace argued, “the stories so completely transcend their motive cause that the biographical facts become, in the deepest and most literal way, irrelevant.”

The same can be said of Wallace himself, and, for that matter, of just about any author worth reading. The work is everything; the life is trivia. And since I’m about to praise a movie about David Foster Wallace that claims fidelity to at least some of the facts of his life, I should perhaps identify myself as a devoted nonconsumer of literary biographies, an avowed biopic skeptic and, unless someone offers me a lot of money to write one, a habitual avoider of celebrity profiles. So by all rights I should hate “ The End of the Tour ,” James Ponsoldt’s new film, a portrait of the writer that has its origins in a (never-published) magazine profile. In fact, I love it.

Some of the people closest to Wallace, who committed suicide in 2008, have condemned the movie sight unseen, and friends of his who did see it ( one of them also a friend of mine) have found fault with both its details and its overall design. As an ardent , ambivalent reader of Wallace’s prose and a complete stranger to him personally, I can only respect such objections. But the movie, in my view, disarms them — not because it offers an especially loving or lifelike picture of its subject but rather because David Foster Wallace is not really its subject at all. “The End of the Tour” is at once an exercise in post-postmodern literary mythmaking and an unsparing demolition of the contemporary mythology of the writer. It’s ultimately a movie — one of the most rigorous and thoughtful I’ve seen — about the ethical and existential traps our fame-crazed culture sets for the talented and the mediocre alike.

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There are two Davids in the movie, which takes place in 1996. Both of them are writers. One is Wallace (Jason Segel), whose third book of fiction, the 1,079-page dystopian tennis-rehab epic “Infinite Jest,” has just been published to hyperbolic acclaim . The other is David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg), whose own recently released novel, “The Art Fair,” has met with polite indifference. An early scene finds him on his couch reading “Infinite Jest” while his girlfriend, Sarah (Anna Chlumsky), is curled up with the season’s other fictional blockbuster, the anonymously published political roman à clef “Primary Colors.” (Oh, the ’90s. Sorry you missed all the fun, kids. Kind of sorry I didn’t.)

David L., a new, probationary hire at Rolling Stone magazine, convinces his skeptical editor (Ron Livingston) that David F.W. is worthy of a feature article, and so finds himself in Bloomington, Ill., in the middle of winter. (Wallace taught for many years at Illinois State University.) The plan is that the reporter will accompany the novelist to Minneapolis, the last stop on his book tour. He does, and that’s pretty much the plot of the movie.

Mr. Ponsoldt, whose earlier features include “The Spectacular Now” and “Smashed,” would much rather observe two people in aimless conversation than usher them through the tollbooths of narrative convention. And conversation, including the uncomfortable silences that punctuate it, is pretty much the entire substance of “The End of the Tour.” Yes, there’s a fair amount of smoking and junk-food eating, an excursion to the Mall of America and a multiplex showing of “ Broken Arrow ” (with John Travolta taking a missile to the gut), but Mr. Ponsoldt and the screenwriter, the playwright Donald Margulies, allow words to speak louder than actions.

Many of the words are Wallace’s own, uttered into Mr. Lipsky’s tape recorder in 1996 and transcribed, 14 years later, for publication in a book called “ Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself .” Funny, intriguing and revealing as this talk may be, it does not have anything like the status of Wallace’s writing. The film not only acknowledges this distinction, but it also insists on it. In his would-be profiler’s company, occasionally glancing at the menacing red light of the predigital tape recorder, Wallace is by turns cagey and candid, witty and earnest, but he is always aware, at times painfully, that he is playing the role of a writer in someone else’s fantasy. Actually writing is something he does when no one else is around.

Mr. Segel’s performance, whether it captures the true Wallace or not, is sharp and sensitive, in no small part because it’s modest and appropriately evasive. The essential David Wallace is precisely what the film reminds us we can’t see, even as David Lipsky wants desperately to track him down and display him to the readers of Rolling Stone. Wallace is caught in a familiar set of contradictions. He wants attention but craves solitude. He’s willing to collaborate with the machinery of publicity even as he worries about the phoniness of it all. He’s ambitious and eager to protect himself from the consequences of his ambition. In short, he’s a famous writer.

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As such he is, for his short-term companion, both alpha dog and prey, an object of envy as well as admiration, a meal ticket and an imaginary friend. The film poses the question “Who is the real David Foster Wallace?” as a feint. He is its premise, its axiom, its great white whale. The more relevant question, the moral problem on which the movie turns, is “who is David Lipsky?”

In real life, David Lipsky might be a great guy, but on screen he is played by Mr. Eisenberg, which means that his genetic material is at least 25 percent weasel. Wallace at one point playfully describes himself as “pleasantly unpleasant.” Lipsky is unpleasantly pleasant, which is much worse. Twitchy and ingratiating, he wants to be a tough journalist and a pal. He desperately wants Wallace to regard him as a peer and can hardly contain his jealousy. He berates Sarah after she chats with Wallace on the phone and falls into a defensive snit after Wallace accuses him of flirting with Betsy (Mickey Sumner), a poet who had known Wallace in graduate school.

His awfulness is, to some degree, structural. A profile writer, especially in the company of another writer, is a false friend who dreams of being a secret sharer. Lipsky’s assignment is to pry, distort and betray, to use Wallace’s words and the details of his existence as material for his own dubious project. Wallace knows this and acquiesces to it — “you agreed to the interview” is Lipsky’s fallback when his subject gets prickly — and generally handles himself with grace and forbearance.

You may find yourself wishing that he didn’t have to, which is to say wishing that “The End of the Tour” didn’t exist even as you hang on its every word and revel in its rough, vernacular beauty. In an ideal world, we would all sit at home reading “Infinite Jest” and then go out to eat hamburgers, argue about philosophy and watch cheesy action blockbusters. There would be no pseudo-authoritative biographies or prying, preening magazine profiles to complicate our pleasures, and ambitious actors would not dare to impersonate beloved novelists. But the world we live in is plagued by all of those things. There will always be films about writers and writing, and this one is just about as good as it gets.

“The End of the Tour” is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). Language. So much language.

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What You Need to Know Before Seeing the David Foster Wallace Biopic

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The David Foster Wallace biopic, The End of the Tour , finally arrives in theaters next week. The film follows a five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky ( Jesse Eisenberg ) and Wallace ( Jason Segel ) during a 1996 promotional tour for Wallace’s newly published tome, Infinite Jest . Since production began in 2014, the James Ponsoldt –directed film has faced opposition from the late writer’s estate. “The David Foster Wallace Literary Trust, David's family, and David's longtime publisher Little, Brown and Company wish to make it clear that they have no connection with, and neither endorse nor support The End of the Tour ,” reads one statement. Here, a brief breakdown of the estate’s protest.

The Background

In 1996, David Lipsky, a Rolling Stone reporter, was given an assignment to follow author David Foster Wallace, who had newly achieved literary celebrity with the publication of Infinite Jest . After Lipsky followed the author for five days on his book tour, Rolling Stone did not publish the story. After Wallace committed suicide in 2008, Lipsky folded the story into his book, Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself , which was published in 2010. In February of 2014, it was announced that Sony Pictures had acquired the rights to the adaptation of Lipsky’s book, The End of the Tour .

The Grievance

Two months after the rights were secured, Wallace’s estate publicly denounced the film, writing, “[Lipsky’s] article was never published and David would never have agreed that those saved transcripts could later be repurposed as the basis of a movie.” The statement went on to say that the trust was given no advanced notice of the film’s production, and that those involved with the film were made aware of the estate’s stance, “yet persisted in capitalizing upon a situation that leaves those closest to David unable to prevent the production.” The statement concluded: “For the avoidance of doubt, there is no circumstance under which the David Foster Wallace Literary Trust would have consented to the adaptation of this interview into a motion picture, and we do not consider it an homage.”

The Takeaway

Though the David Foster Wallace Literary Trust is not known to have filed a legal suit against The End of the Tour , the dispute has raised questions in literary circles . While anti-defamation laws don’t extend to the deceased, Wallace’s estate owns the rights to the author’s work , which could arguably extend to the taped interview Wallace gave to Lipsky back in 1996. (Taped interviews are a legal gray area.) But it’s in the court of public opinion that the David Foster Wallace Literary Trust has taken action. The verdict? We’ll know next week.

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Jeff Giles is a former Deputy Editor of Entertainment Weekly. His YA novel The Mercy Rule will be published next year by Bloomsbury.

The End of the Tour, out now, is the true story of two thirtysomething writers named David: one, played by a bespectacled and bandana-ed Jason Segel, is the novelist David Foster Wallace, who’s deeply ambivalent about the fame that his new novel Infinite Jest has brought crashing down on his head. (The novel was published in 1996.) The other, played by a relentlessly inquisitive Jesse Eisenberg, is a Rolling Stone reporter named David Lipsky. He’s a struggling author, as it happens, and he’s eager to understand what the makes the newly minted genius tick.

What follows is a week-long road trip, during which the young men size each other up and wrestle over matters both grand (life, authenticity, depression) and mundane (“Die Hard” and junk food). The existential adventure became the basis for Lipsky’s book Although Of Course You End Becoming Yourself , which he published after Wallace’s suicide in 2008, and which is the basis for the movie.

I recently spoke with Lipsky, whom I have known since college in the mid-1980s, about his journey with David Foster Wallace.

TIME: I’ve known you forever, and I have no trouble believing you went through David Foster Wallace’s medicine cabinet looking for secrets because I know how many times you went through my kitchen cabinets looking for junk food.

Actually, David was great on non-healthy eating. Our first morning, he said very solemnly, “Mi Pop Tart es su Pop Tart.” In reality David’s medicine chest was already open, and I was interested to see that he had a tube of Topol, the smoker’s tooth polish. He told me he’d left stuff around—his monthly Cosmo , the big Alanis Morrisette poster—for me to find. I think he wanted me to get a clear sense of what he was like.

I assume you’d read Wallace’s stuff before you knew you’d be interviewing him?

Yes, you actually urged me to read his book of short stories, Girl With Curious Hair , and then Pauline Kael talked about his David Letterman story in The New Yorker . And when David came to New York to edit his Harper’s Magazine pieces, I’d always hear about it. Friends would brag about how DFW had flown in from Illinois, how they talked with him in the hall or walked outside with him to grab sodas. People had started to treasure him even before the bigger books came along, because he was so electric and charming. So, when I got the assignment, I read Infinite Jest and watched the crowds at his New York readings. That was an odd literary experience. There wasn’t even standing room—you just couldn’t get in.

How much did you like his writing at the time? Did you think he’d end up being a fad or did you know his stuff was built to last?

Oh no: He was great. It was one of those moments, like Salinger for the fifties or Fitzgerald and Hemingway a generation before. He was getting our culture exactly right: how it feels right now to be alive. That’s an amazing gift to have and give.

Where did you keep the tapes after the interview? I assume you didn’t know you’d ever use them again.

I saved them in a shoebox, like in the movie. I had a “favorite recorded days” box. There was a tape my brother made of some Joni Mitchell for my mom, Dylan Thomas talking about Christmas, Philip Roth reading from The Ghost Writer —and the tapes of David. I liked to take them out and listen. I’d also kept the transcripts and I read them every few years. The things David said really mattered to me.

The movie really captures what it’s like to be an ambitious young writer hoping to make the kind of mark Wallace made. Do you remember what you wanted out of life when you were 30, like you are in The End of Tour ?

I wanted to earn a living wage and to see something nice about me in the New York Times . I wanted my mother to be proud. I wanted all the things you want and also feel silly for wanting. I wanted readers to say they’d enjoyed something of mine—to see my photo in magazines where I’d seen photos of other writers. I wanted what David in the book calls “the fuss.”

Sometimes, when journalists sit down to write their stories, they rewrite their questions so they sound smarter, and cut all the embarrassing, human stuff they actually did in the moment. If you’d sanitized the interview with Wallace just to make yourself look cooler, there’d be no movie because a movie has to be about two real people.

That was one of the ideas of the book: if it was going to be everything David was doing, it was only fair to include what I was doing too.

In real life, we both sort of forgot what I was doing there: it was two men who liked books in a car eating bad food and talking about who they were and who they wanted to be. That was part of what I wanted to preserve, and what the movie very much does preserve. Among other things, it’s a movie about being young, and when that starts to stop. By the last couple days we spent together, David was the one working the recorder, finding words for just how he wanted to describe his life.

Why did you decide to turn the tapes into a book and did you have any contact with the family?

I did. When Wallace died, Rolling Stone called and asked me to write about him. At first, it was too sad to think about. Then NPR called, and said that when people die by suicide, there’s always the risk of it shading how they’re remembered. One of David’s great gifts is how alive his writing feels, and it seemed that could all go gray. So I talked about him on NPR, and I wrote about how it felt to be around him for Rolling Stone . David’s family read the piece and emailed about my maybe writing something longer. They are wonderful people—as brilliant and alive as David was. I think what they hoped was that he be remembered as a real, living person. And I wanted to write a book that helped. I asked my publisher if I could pause on the other book I was writing, and because they knew it was important to me they were very nice about giving me time. I sent David’s family the manuscript before it went out to my publisher. I said I wouldn’t do it unless they liked it.

When I heard Jesse Eisenberg would be playing you, I thought, Well, he doesn’t look like David, but he does have the same slightly stuttery intellect—like he’s always trying to say way too much all at once. He seemed jittery in exactly the right way.

Thank you. It’s nice to finally know what you think of me! It’s really important that the real-life Jesse is a writer—he writes plays and humor pieces for the New Yorker. He’s sharp, self-doubting, very funny. I first saw him in “The Squid and the Whale,” playing the son of two writers. It was so close to my background and to my own parents’ divorce that Rolling Stone people would say, “Hey, I just saw a movie about you.” Jesse sat down with me and had great questions about how it feels to have a tape recorder running and how to direct a conversation and how you try to find a person inside their words. We met in a diner, coincidentally—like David and I did. And when we walked our check to the cash register, he looked at me and pointed out we aren’t really the same height. I said I thought that would actually be a plus for the story the movie tells. Because of his incredible stature as a writer, David was taller than everybody .

Since Eisenberg plays such a young, raw version of you in the movie, I wished there was a title card at the end that said: “David Lipsky has gotten a lot of what he wished for: He’s written two bestsellers, and won a National Magazine Award. He is now working on an epic book about climate change, and teaches young writers at NYU.”

When I went back and read the book, I noticed how much I yearned to understand what it felt like to get what you wanted: to write a book you knew was good and get back that pleasing cultural grade. But David said a funny thing. He said, “It’d be very interesting to talk to you in a few years. My own experience is that that’s not so—that the more people think that you’re really good, actually the stronger the fear of being a fraud is.” Later, I got to see some of those things myself. I’ve always wished we could have the conversation again from the other side.

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‘The End Of The Tour’ Review: Jesse Eisenberg & Jason Segel Bring Writers To Cinematic Life

One of the breakout hits of the Sundance Film Festival, The End Of The Tour begins hitting theaters Friday, and as I say in my video review (click the link above), it is a literate and rewarding look at something that — on the surface at least — would not seem very cinematic. Based on a bestselling book by Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky, the movie recounts the five-day 1996 interview session Lipsky conducted with acclaimed author David Foster Wallace, whose massive 1000-plus-page novel, Infinite Jest, had just been released.

Thanks to Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies’ wonderfully literate and involving screenplay, plus some smart direction from James Ponsoldt, End Of The Tour, which indeed is told using the device of a road trip for much of its running time, is remarkably fluid and

watchable all the way despite basically being a movie about words. Dialogue-driven films about ideas, thoughts and life philosophies are rare birds these days, but this one manages to reel us in with a portrait equally targeting both interviewer and interviewee. Margulies took most of the words from the massive amount of audio tapes Lipsky collected over that week, but had never used until hearing years later in 2008 about Wallace’s tragic suicide. That is how the film opens. The original interview never did run for whatever reasons, but Lipsky, still haunted by the memory of it, revisited those tapes and put the whole thing in the form of a book about the experience.

Now it’s a movie, which takes its title from the fact that Wallace is at the last stop on his book tour. It’s also one that has to walk a slippery slope as the online sharks and Wallace devotees are looking for every reason to tear it down. Expect to hear from those know-it-alls who claim they were the author’s best friend and that this movie does the extremely private man a disservice. That always happens with biopics, but in this case I think the word biopic is entirely misleading: This is a film that tells the story of a subject through one very narrow point in his life. And it is supported by what was actually on those tapes. It is a great device and by necessity of being a two-hour movie liberties have probably been taken. Still Ponsoldt, brought into the project by Margulies, was a huge fan of Wallace’s work and seems the perfect director to bring him to life again on the big screen.

Plus the casting could not have been better. Jesse Eisenberg plays Lipsky with just the right amount of nervous tics, energy and curiosity to pull it off — just as he did with another difficult real life personality as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network. But the real surprise is that Jason Segel , known almost exclusively for comedic roles, was chosen to portray Wallace, bandanna and all. He clearly put his heart and soul into this role and from my point of view he gets right to the essence of the character without attempting an impersonation. It is a performance worthy of consideration for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination; comedy actors who surprise with dramatic chops are like catnip for Academy voters. I say supporting because even though the screen time between the pair is roughly equa , the thrust of the story is definitely Lipsky’s.

Producers are James Dahl, Matt DeRoss, David Kanter, Mark C. Manuel and Ted O’Neal. A24 , the nascent distributor which has been riding an indie hot streak this year with Ex-Machina and Amy, opens the film in select engagements. Do you plan to see The End Of The Tour ? Let us know what you think.

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Review: ‘End of the Tour’ may be fiction as fact

“The End of the Tour” would be so much easier to wholeheartedly endorse if it wasn’t about David Foster Wallace.

And yet Wallace, the critically adored author best known for his 1996 novel “Infinite Jest,” is the subject and ostensibly the source for the film. Played here by Jason Segel, we follow him and Rolling Stone writer David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) as Lipsky interviews Wallace for a profile feature during the “Infinite Jest” book tour.

Segel and Eisenberg have a terrific, prickly chemistry, consistently engaging our attention as Wallace and Lipsky bond, clash and constantly probe to better understand each other’s life and work. Segel, in particular, is magnificent, recreating Wallace as a well-rounded, ultimately heartbreaking character.

Philosophical observations fly thick and fast between the two, playing like a road-tripping “My Dinner With Andre,” although the film avoids full-blown pretension. In the end, it creates a poignant meditation on loneliness, aspiration and achievement.

However, a little background on the project raises some major moral qualms. The film is based on Lipsky’s 2010 book “Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself,” published two years after Wallace’s suicide (Lipsky’s “Rolling Stone” piece was never published). If the pair’s contentious exchanges about Lipsky’s perception and portrayal of Wallace are indeed true, it seems more than a little presumptuous to employ Hollywood actors to present Lipsky’s interpretation of Wallace’s pain as fact onscreen.

The whole thing becomes even more dodgy when you take into account that Wallace’s estate has disowned the movie, asserting that Wallace “would never have agreed” to Lipsky’s transcripts being “repurposed” for a film.

Taken as a film about two fictional characters, “The End of the Tour” is a stimulating delight. But it’s awfully hard to call it a true honor to its subject’s memory.

‘The End of the Tour’

Rated R for language including some sexual references

Running time: 105 minutes

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Why didn't david lipsky's interview appear in rolling stone magazine.

In March of 1996, after Lipsky spent five days traveling on the Infinite Jest book tour in Illinois and Minnesota, he was preparing to begin writing his profile on David Foster Wallace. However, the profile never happened. "There had been some heroin troubles in Seattle," said Lipsky during a Center for Fiction speaking engagement , "and so I got reassigned to that story. ...and when I got back and finished the [heroin] story, it was about a month and a half afterwards and it was too late. So I never had to write the piece." As shown in the movie, it wasn't until after David Foster Wallace's suicide in 2008 that Lipsky revisited his recorded interviews with Wallace, which he published in 2010 under the title Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself . -The Center for Fiction The real David Lipsky never wrote his profile on David Foster Wallace for Rolling Stone because he was pulled away for another assignment, and it eventually became too late to do the piece.

Did David Foster Wallace's estate support the making of the movie?

No. In researching The End of the Tour true story, we discovered that the David Foster Wallace Literary Trust conveyed strong opposition to the movie, making it clear that they were never contacted, nor did they give permission to the filmmakers. Upon learning of the movie, they released the following statement, which reads: "The David Foster Wallace Literary Trust, David's family, and David's longtime publisher Little, Brown and Company wish to make it clear that they have no connection with, and neither endorse nor support The End of the Tour . This motion picture is loosely based on transcripts from an interview David consented to eighteen years ago for a magazine article about the publication of his novel, Infinite Jest . That article was never published and David would never have agreed that those saved transcripts could later be repurposed as the basis of a movie. The Trust was given no advance notice that this production was underway and, in fact, first heard of it when it was publicly announced. For the avoidance of doubt, there is no circumstance under which the David Foster Wallace Literary Trust would have consented to the adaptation of this interview into a motion picture, and we do not consider it an homage." -LATimes.com

Did David Foster Wallace really live alone with his dogs in rural Illinois?

Yes, after he had written a significant amount of Infinite Jest , he bought his first house on the outskirts of Bloomington, Illinois and got his first dog, Jeeves, at the pound. Like we see in The End of the Tour movie, he was a bit unkempt but still highly intelligent and insightful. He painted his writing room black and filled it with vintage lamps ( The New Yorker ). Eventually, he did marry, tying the knot with artist Karen Green on December 27, 2004 ( Rolling Stone ). Jason Segel (left) in The End of the Tour movie, and the real David Foster Wallace (right) delivering a 2005 commencement speech .

How accurate are the conversations between David Lipsky and David Foster Wallace in the movie?

The End of the Tour true story reveals that the majority of the conversations in the movie between the author Wallace (Jason Segel) and the journalist Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) were taken almost verbatim from the real David Lipsky's taped conversations with Wallace. -SlashFilm.com

How exactly did David Foster Wallace die?

On September 12, 2008, David Foster Wallace's wife, artist Karen L. Green, returned to their Claremont, California home to find that Wallace had hung himself from a patio rafter. He left a two-page note and prepared part of the manuscript for The Pale King , the novel he had been working on but had not finished ( Every Love Story is a Ghost Story ). His father, James Wallace, said his son had suffered from depression for over twenty years and in June 2007, had stopped taking his primary medication after suffering severe side effects ( The New York Times ). When his depression returned, he underwent electro-convulsive therapy and even tried going back onto his old medication, phenelzine, but it had lost its effectiveness ( Rolling Stone ). Jason Segel (left) portrays David Foster Wallace (right), who committed suicide on September 12, 2008.

When did David Foster Wallace begin suffering from depression?

David Foster Wallace was first diagnosed with depression in the early 1980s when he was an undergraduate at Amherst College. Ever since that time, he had used medication to manage his symptoms ( The New Yorker ). "He had left for college and he came back his sophomore year in the middle of the year unexpectedly," said sister Amy Wallace during an interview with Electric Cereal . "This just stunned all of us. We had absolutely no idea what he was going through and what he was struggling with, and that was a very memorable and difficult time." Amy says that David had been "a very, very volatile and moody teenager," but he was "very, very secretive too." She believes that he had likely been having depression-related feelings in high school, especially in his senior year of high school, and the depression got much worse during college. -Electric Cereal

David Lipsky turned the transcripts of his conversations with the real David Foster Wallace into a book titled Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself . Did travelling with David Foster Wallace really have a profound impact on David Lipsky?

Yes. "Travelling with him was about as much fun as I've had travelling with anybody or ever talking to anybody," says the real David Lipsky. "He was just incredibly awake." -The Center for Fiction

Why did David Lipsky decide to turn his essays into a book after David Foster Wallace died?

"I wanted to think of a way to kind of remind people of what he was like when he was alive," says the real David Lipsky. Following Wallace's death, Lipsky received an email from Wallace's sister, Amy, who said she was being contacted by reporters and fans. She expressed her desire that her brother be remembered as a "real living person." Lipsky decided to write the book as basically a transcript of them talking because he wanted to honor Wallace's fear of having someone write about him and shape the conversation however they wished. The book, titled Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace , became the basis for The End of the Tour movie. -The Center for Fiction

David Foster Wallace's 1,079-page novel Infinite Jest is a satire about the entertainment-obsessed culture in America. What is the novel Infinite Jest about?

At 1,079 pages, David Foster Wallace's novel Infinite Jest takes place in a near-future North American dystopia where the United States, Mexico, and Canada form a giant superstate called the Organization of North American Nations (O.N.A.N.). The novel is not science fiction but rather falls into the realm of satire, humorously addressing various elements of American culture, including entertainment and addiction, which it suggests adversely affect our ability to think and connect with other people on a meaningful level. What does our indulgence in such pleasures say about who we are as human beings? The characters that bring these philosophical debates to life interact mainly within the novel's two primary locations, a tennis academy and a halfway-house, which turn out to be surprisingly similar.

For more insight into The End of the Tour true story, watch two David Foster Wallace interviews, including a 1997 appearance on Charlie Rose and a candid interview on the German television station ZDF. Then view an interview with the real David Lipsky, portrayed by Jesse Eisenberg in The End of the Tour movie.

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The End of the Tour

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Where’s the drama and, hell, the laughs in the nonspectacle of two writers talking with and at each other? For a riveting answer, check out The End of the Tour. The film is based on the 2010 book Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself, by Rolling Stone writer David Lipsky . Over five days in 1996, Lipsky ( Jesse Eisenberg ) interviewed celebrated novelist and essayist David Foster Wallace ( Jason Segel , like you’ve never seen him before). It was the end of Wallace’s tour for his magnum opus, Infinite Jest . It wasn’t until after the depression-plagued Wallace hanged himself in 2008 that Lipsky used the material in a story that won a National Magazine Award and became the basis for his book. Suicide hangs over the movie as it did the book, scrambling our thoughts and perhaps helping us achieve a greater understanding.

Nothing and everything happen in the movie. Director James Ponsoldt ( The Spectacular Now ), working from a fluid script by playwright Donald Margulies, does justice to the book without compromising his film. This is no biopic. The story takes place when the bandanna-wearing Wallace was at the peak of his success and trying in his own shambling, humane way to deal with it.

From the moment Lipsky, played with seductive intelligence and a secret smile by Eisenberg, arrives at Wallace’s bachelor cave in snowbound Bloomington, Illinois, the scene is set for mesmerizing mind games. The more Lipsky pushes — his editor (Ron Livingston) wants details of the author’s alleged heroin addiction — the warier Wallace becomes.

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So we watch as Lipsky and Wallace travel by car, bus and jet trying to suss each other out, to touch a nerve, to form a bond. In Minneapolis, they eat junk food and argue pop culture. Then, at dinner with Wallace’s pal Julie (Mamie Gummer) and his former college love Betsy (Mickey Sumner), the low-key author accuses Lipsky of crass flirting. His words sting. Segel, giving the performance of his career, potently catches Wallace’s internal conflicts.

As the details accumulate, so does the power of the film, an illuminating meditation on art and life that hits you hard with its ferocity and feeling. What could have been a static record of a conversation becomes kinetic cinema of startling immediacy. Lipsky wrote, “Books are a social substitute; you read people who, at one level, you’d like to hang out with.” The End of the Tour lets us hang out with two different writers who strive rigorously to never completely let their guard down. Although of course they end up becoming themselves. Right in front of us. That’s what makes the movie, elevated by two extraordinary actors, an exhilarating gift. In the last image Ponsoldt gives us of Wallace, the former athlete is doing something that distills what his words do with such artful abandon: dancing.

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When Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network) joined acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel, Sex Tape) on his book tour, an epic five-day journey began. As the two men share laughs and reveal hidden frailties, they are forever bonded in this fascinating and ultimately heartbreaking story.

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Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 46 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ November 3, 2015
Actors ‏ : ‎ Jason Segel, Jesse Eisenberg
Producers ‏ : ‎ Matt DeRoss, James Dahl, David Kanter, Mark Manuel, Ted O'Neal
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Jesse Eisenberg (left) plays journalist David Lipsky and Jason Segel plays David Foster Wallace in The End of the Tour . A24 Films hide caption

Jesse Eisenberg (left) plays journalist David Lipsky and Jason Segel plays David Foster Wallace in The End of the Tour .

Some David Foster Wallace fans recoiled when they heard that sitcom veteran Jason Segel had been cast to play the Infinite Jest author in a movie. But Segel stretches impressively beyond expectations in The End of the Tour , an intriguing if not altogether convincing film. The actor is not just hulking physique and long hair wrapped in an unflattering bandana.

Less unexpected is Jesse Eisenberg's fidgety performance as David Lipsky, the frustrated novelist who wrote a book about his journalistic encounter with Wallace. Unfortunately, Lipsky is the film's main character.

That is, in no small part, because he survived. The story begins in 2008, with the news that Wallace has committed suicide. Lipsky rushes to a radio studio to offer his perspective, based on a multiday interview with Wallace 12 years earlier for a Rolling Stone piece that was never published. (It was reborn as a book, Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace .)

Then it's back to 1996 and off to Bloomington, Ill., where Lipsky travels to meet an alternately welcoming and reluctant Wallace. The two will spend a few days together talking over the successful novelist's art, neuroses and taste for mass-market cultural consumables, from Alanis Morissette to breakfast pastries. Rather than My Dinner with Andre , the film is My Pop-Tart with David .

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The pair flies to Minneapolis, where Wallace is to do the final reading of a book tour. They're greeted by a broad caricature of Midwestern hospitality (Joan Cusack) and later meet two of Wallace's fans/friends/possible love interests (Mamie Gummer and Mickey Sumner). Lipsky also puts his girlfriend (Anna Chlumsky) on the phone with Wallace, and is not pleased by her pleasure.

Yet the real dating game is between Lipsky and Wallace. The interviewer has been sent to get the dirt: Is the hot writer suicidal? Alcoholic? A heroin addict? What Lipsky actually craves is some of the better-known man's mojo. For his part, Wallace wants an agreeable profile in a prominent magazine. He's willing to pretend, even to himself, that he and Lipsky are becoming buddies.

"This is nice," he says of their dialogue, before immediately turning self-conscious. "This is not real."

Director James Ponsoldt, who previously made the teen melodrama The Spectacular Now , stages the conversations in diners, airports and bookshops. He also packs the soundtrack with songs, a few of which offer commentary. When Wallace first tries to explain to Lipsky the gap between his image and his true self, Tracey Ullman's version of "They Don't Know" plays in the background.

Segel is generally persuasive and engaging. While he's not quite convincing in Wallace's stormier moments, it's hard to imagine another actor pulling them off, either.

Eisenberg does a lot of familiar shtick, which can be annoying. But then annoying is sort of right for a reporter who accepts the guest room in his subject's home and then rummages through his medicine cabinet.

That's about as eventful as The End of the Tour gets, which means it's no competition for the latest Mission Impossible flick. The movie is only for Wallace buffs and one other, even smaller group: journalists who have interviewed a reasonably famous cultural personage.

Those who've had that experience will likely squirm at Wallace and Lipsky's parody of friendship, their shifting balance of truth-telling and self-promotion, and the uncomfortable mix of candor, ritual and con game. When the encounter is over, Lipsky has learned enough to write a magazine feature. But David Foster Wallace remains unknown and unknowable.

The Not-Quite End of the Book Tour

6 a.m. flights, three-person audiences, and “escorts”: inside the 21st-century reality of a storied institution.

As I was flying from my home in Slovenia to New York for a week-long tour to promote my new book in June, I fantasized about the knishes and bialys I would consume during my travels. Even while daydreaming, though, I was acutely aware of what a rarity it is these days for an author to be sent on a book tour at all. In recent years, and especially since the recession of 2008, when author advances shrunk and publishing had to tighten its collective belt , one of the first things to go were book tours (not to mention the all-but-extinct beast called the “book release party”).

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For publishers, sending authors on tour is expensive—they have to cover transport, meals, and nice hotels. And perhaps more importantly, touring doesn’t necessarily translate into better book sales. It’s hard to tell, in fact, what effect they have at all, as sales records don’t show what prompted someone to buy the book, only where the book was purchased. With the publication of my two books, most recently The Art of Forgery in June, I’ve found myself part of a lucky group that still gets to partake in this somewhat fading institution. I’ve witnessed firsthand how publishers have adapted to a changing industry—by becoming more selective about which authors to send on tour, which promotional appearances to secure, and how to make the dollars stretch.

The editors and publicists I spoke to for this article explained that, back in the day, publishers would send authors out on tour fairly regularly—the more events and cities covered, the better. But in this new, more austere era, publishers only regularly pay to send authors who are compelling public speakers, authors with large established audiences who are guaranteed to sell well and therefore cover expenses (the James Pattersons, Gary Shteyngarts, J.K. Rowlings, and so on), or authors with a high profile that extends beyond books (such as actors, athletes, comedians). Publishers might send the odd debut writer, in hopes of more media coverage, but it’s no longer a given.

Obviously not falling into the second or third category, I’m more the kind of author who gets a kick out of the times I’ve been able to go out, meet people, and talk about my books. For me, writing is a great but solitary activity, normally undertaken in a dark room, alone, while I’m in my pajamas. I enjoy the adrenaline of performance; the bigger the audience, the better. I’ve spoken for audiences ranging in size from 700 to three (more on that later), and been interviewed by everyone from local blogs with a readership in the low hundreds to the BBC. But I’m aware that being offered these opportunities is a huge privilege, and not the norm—for most authors the publicity process involves phone or email interviews, with maybe a single local bookstore event.

In order to swing sending authors out on tour, publishers today have to make compromises. Previously, authors would get a company credit card and sort out their own travel arrangements, accommodations, and meals without supervision—often a wasteful approach. Then publishers began to experiment with sending publicists out with authors to serve two functions: as a fixer (with a theoretically more measured use of the company credit card) and chaperone. But this meant double the expense: twice the plane and train tickets, twice the meals, twice the hotels. Then arrived another solution that I only learned about on my first tour, back in 2007 for my novel The Art Thief . It peeled back the veil over this quasi-legendary concept of authors on tour (I imagined groupies, whiskey, cigarette smoke, typewriters), and exposed me to a new, and completely fascinating, role that I never knew existed: that of the awkwardly named “escort.”

Author escorts are local residents of the cities visited by those of us on tour, and are subcontracted by publishers to meet and guide authors who come into town. (You can spot them at airports and train stations, because they’re always carrying a copy of your book.) Most in my experience have been elegant, middle-aged women with pearl necklaces and SUVs and husbands in banking, women who read vast numbers of books, know their cities inside out, and are thrilled to show visitors around. They do have the company credit card, and anything you do while they’re with you is paid for (free food is the siren song for writers, impossible to resist). In all, the escort system is a more cost-effective way to get authors where they need to be: Because escorts live in the city in question, the publisher doesn’t need to fly them in or spring for their hotel.

Escorts, for their part, make hectic book tours exponentially easier. On my first tour in 2007 , I ping-ponged around 12 cities, and not in any order that made geographic sense (for some reason San Francisco was scheduled for the day between events in Austin and Houston). I’d get up each morning around 6, groggily pack up my bag at another hotel, and be driven to the airport for an early flight to the next city. There I’d be picked up by the next escort, who’d be smiling and brandishing my book. My escort would bring me to interviews, radio stations, TV studios, press junkets in hotel rooms, to meals (they always know the best places to eat), and then to the book event.

Blurry-eyed authors, uncertain of the day of the week, their current location, or just who is president of the United States, require handholding to maintain such a packed schedule. My most recent tour for The Art of Forgery , which ended in June, included five cities in seven days, with three of the cities featuring in a single day: up at 5 a.m. in Boston, a flight to New York to film an interview for CBS This Morning , then a train to New Haven for an event.

Escorts are often the most interesting person an author will meet on a book tour. In Chicago for The Art Thief, my escort was an aspiring writer planning to pen a memoir called Super Jew , while my San Francisco escort was a novelist who had a hit about Beat vampires back in the ’70s. Authors can go a bit stir crazy, repeating roughly the same presentation night after night, and answering the same questions interview after interview, so a bit of spontaneity and company can be refreshing.

By and large, book tours mostly entail maneuvering to get on radio shows or TV programs, and less glamorous elements, like attending bookstore readings where hardly anyone shows up. At one reading, I had only three people in the audience— including my escort for that city ... and my dad. At the time, I didn’t understand why my publisher had flown me all the way out to play, essentially, to an empty house. But then the store manager wheeled out hundreds of books to sign for the first-edition mail club, and I understood: Book events are not just about selling to the people who attend them, which even for prominent authors can mean only a few dozen copies sold. They’re about getting authors local media attention, getting bookstore staffers face time with authors so they can promote the books, and signing copies. While signed books do sell better, they also can’t be returned to the publisher if they don’t sell—a win-win for publishers.

The national end of things can be even trickier to navigate. From my publisher’s perspective, the main selling point on my U.S. tour in June was my appearance on Fresh Air , a nationally syndicated NPR radio show that’s considered the ne plus ultra of book-selling radio. The host Terry Gross is mistress of 4.5 million regular listeners who consume books like Tic Tacs and who are the target audience for all American publishers of non-fiction, and anything literary.

So many interviews these days are by phone or Skype or email that it’s not strictly necessary to have Author A in Location B in order to get media coverage, but Fresh Air is an exception, preferring guests who can appear in the flesh. And while I did major live events in Washington, D.C. and in New York, each event only reached a few hundred people, at most. My NPR appearance alone justified the considerable cost of paying my way to, and around the U.S. on this tour, because it was bound to offer a boost in sales. While touring alone may be expensive and rarely leads directly to better book sales, Fresh Air alone can launch a bestseller.

Programs like Fresh Air can take on an outsize influence given the tenuous state of book reviewing —the practice has been purportedly dying since at least 1959 . On the TV end of things, this year marked the departure of two major promotional platforms for the book industry : The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report , where renowned public intellectuals and authors from small presses alike could get national attention. As Alex Shephard of the independent publisher Melville House noted , “ an appearance [on those shows] couldn’t guarantee a book would become a bestseller, but it was about as close to a sure thing as you could get in an incredibly uncertain marketplace.” He added that the loss of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report should serve as a reminder that the book industry has long relied on third parties such as critics for promotion and that it should think of new, better ways to market itself. It’s unclear whether publishers will see tours as part of the future of book-selling—but for the sake of readers and writers alike, they should.

With the exception of the recent movie about David Foster Wallace, The End of the Tour , there are few recent examples of book tours in popular culture, making the institution a hazy myth in most people’s minds. Which means few are aware of the unfortunate changes that have befallen the tradition. Book tours for the already-famous will always continue, but there’s a real danger that publishers will decide that the rest of us authors are no longer worth sending on tour at all, a trend that is well under way . This would be a great shame: Tours are often the only chance for writers to spend time with the actual people who read their books. There’s already a big disconnect between readers and authors, who often exist only as an abstraction, as a name on a book spine, or perhaps as a Facebook “friend” you’ve never seen in the flesh.

Tours bridge that gap. The TV appearances may be the shiniest of the trophies on publicists’ walls, but there’s no feeling as good for an author as shaking the hand of someone who genuinely loved something you wrote. And as a reader, I can say that I get a jolt of endorphins when I meet a favorite author in person; it’s a surreal event that all but guarantees I’ll remain a devoted reader for years to come. In a world this big, it’s a wonderful thing that encounters like these help keep people’s love of books alive. So it’s my sincere hope that the publishing industry won’t let the book tour die, not just as a writer, but as a reader. As flawed, fatiguing, and unreliable as it is, it is also undeniably special.

The End Of The Tour

Director James Ponsoldt’s The End Of The Tour is a special kind of film. In the spirit of titles like 12 Angry Men , Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and No Exit , it doesn’t have any big set pieces, MacGuffins, or big plot devices, but instead is driven forward entirely through dialogue - with a central relationship ever evolving as the characters, who are metaphorically manacled together, both repulse and relate to each other. Of course, the movie just following this path isn’t special; what’s special is how the simple yet immensely complex approach manages to be so incredibly engrossing and compelling.

The characters I’m referring to are David Lipsky ( Jesse Eisenberg ), a reporter working on a piece for Rolling Stone; and David Foster Wallace ( Jason Segel ), the famed author who is portrayed in the movie at the height of his popularity following the release of his post-modern classic, “Infinite Jest.” Lipsky begins the movie convincing his editor (Ron Livingston) to let him write a piece about the buzzed-about writer, and before long he finds himself propelled into the winter-struck Midwest, first seeing Wallace standing in front of his house with his two rambunctious dogs running around in snow that comes up to the bandana-sporting writer’s knees. It takes half a second to recognize Wallace’s shyness and introversion – which comes as a great and absorbing contrast to Lipsky’s mix of confidence and awe.

The relationship blooms fruitfully in their early conversations, as Lipsky begins digging into who Wallace is – the author ever so slowly pulling back his curtain to open up about his deep insecurities and self-consciousness, philosophy, obsessions, and passions (all so fascinating that my pen could barely keep up with my compulsion to capture every word in my notebook for later reflection). The two men stay up late and lose track of time touching on everything from children to Wallace’s goofy love of Alanis Morissette – but this is only the first night of their relationship. The next morning they catch a plane to Minneapolis so that Wallace can finish the book tour referenced in the film’s title, and it’s over the course of this trip that they begin to look differently at one another – questioning each other’s motivations and honesty, testing sensitivities, and punching sore spots.

The sharp, deeply realistic, and powerfully honest dialogue in Donald Margulies’ End Of The Tour screenplay does greatly benefit from the transcription-based source material that is David Lipsky’s non-fiction book “Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself,” but his and James Ponsoldt’s work honing and shaping the storyline in the adaptation is nothing short of masterful. As Wallace and Lipsky go on their road trip locked together, a perfect ebb and flow is crafted in the tone of their conversation and rapport. Passive-aggressive and stilted responses get traded as each spends time trying to work their relationship back to a more stable, positive place, and their growing conflict constantly reveals more of who each of them really are (both to each other, and to the audience). It builds at a perfect pace, never drags, and comes together as an incredibly satisfying narrative.

Even with the greatest script ever written, a film like The End Of The Tour doesn’t work unless it features the right actors – so you can imagine that the film honestly benefits from some of the best performances we’ve seen from both Jesse Eisenberg and Jason Segel (very high praise in my book). Playing something entirely different than the mealy-mouthed nerd or egotistical jerk roles that he’s become known for, Eisenberg brings an interesting confidence and complexity to David Lipsky, and actually adds depth to the character through his physicality and mannerisms as the nature of his approach to David Foster Wallace changes. Meanwhile, Segel just becomes the late sheepish-but-brilliant author from the moment he arrives on screen, spotted through a snow-obscured windshield entirely underdressed for the frigid temperatures. As it should be, the actor makes Wallace’s genius look entirely natural that it almost bounces back to phony – but of course, that just winds up being a conflict point as Lipsky finds himself lost trying to decipher if the man is real or just saying what he wants to hear.

With both Smashed and The Spectacular Now , James Ponsoldt has spent recent years proving that he is one of the best up-and-coming filmmakers in the industry, and The End Of The Tour seals the deal. It is his most fascinating, impactful, and phenomenal work to date. You’ll be impressed by the approach; awed and spellbound by the philosophy; and immediately compelled to seek out more about the brilliant and enigmatic subject at its center.

Eric Eisenberg is the Assistant Managing Editor at CinemaBlend. After graduating Boston University and earning a bachelor’s degree in journalism, he took a part-time job as a staff writer for CinemaBlend, and after six months was offered the opportunity to move to Los Angeles and take on a newly created West Coast Editor position. Over a decade later, he's continuing to advance his interests and expertise. In addition to conducting filmmaker interviews and contributing to the news and feature content of the site, Eric also oversees the Movie Reviews section, writes the the weekend box office report (published Sundays), and is the site's resident Stephen King expert. He has two King-related columns.

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END OF WATCH

BOOK TOUR - JUNE 2016

> ALL VENUES SOLD OUT <

JOIN YOUR FELLOW CONSTANT READERS FOR AN EVENING WITH STEPHEN

To celebrate the release of End of Watch, Stephen will embark on a twelve city book tour kicking off June 7th in New Jersey. The tour will include an evening with Stephen discussing End of Watch , the Bill Hodges Trilogy and much more.

At each event, 400 pre-signed books will be given out at random. There will not be book signings during the appearances.

See the listings below for more information, dates and venues. And make sure to check back here as additional details will become available as time goes on.

Please also note the events may or may not be held at the host bookstore. See the listings below for specific venue details.

Tour Overview

The Venues

TOUR OVERVIEW:

June 7 - WORD Bookstore, Jersey City, NJ (SOLD OUT) June 8 - Penguin Bookshop, Sewickley, PA (SOLD OUT) June 9 - Books & Co., Dayton, OH (SOLD OUT) June 10 - Taylor Books, Charleston, WV (SOLD OUT) June 11 - Parnassus Books, Nashville, TN (SOLD OUT) June 12 - Carmichael’s Books, Louisville, KY (SOLD OUT) June 13 - Prairie Lights, Iowa City, IA (SOLD OUT) June 14 - Bookworm, Omaha, NE (SOLD OUT) June 15 - Booksmart, Tulsa, OK (SOLD OUT) June 16 - Bookworks, Albuquerque, NM (SOLD OUT) June 17 - The King’s English, Salt Lake City, UT (SOLD OUT) June 18 - Barnes & Noble, Reno, NV (SOLD OUT)

THE VENUES:

WORD BOOKSTORE JERSEY CITY, NJ

JUNE 7th 2016

> SOLD OUT <

TICKETS MUST BE PURCHASED ONLINE

PLEASE CAREFULLY READ THE TICKETING GUIDELINES BEFORE PURCHASING YOUR TICKET:

• Due to capacity limits, each person is allowed to purchase a maximum of 2 tickets. If you purchase more than 2 tickets on our website, your order will be adjusted down to 2 when we process it. Please be nice to the WORD employees who are processing these orders and purchase no more than 2 tickets per person!

• All tickets are non-transferable. No exceptions. At the date of the event you will be required to show a valid ID to enter. If you purchased more than one ticket, your plus one must arrive and enter with you.

• Purchasing a ticket guarantees entry to the event as well as a hardcover edition of END OF WATCH. As a special bonus, we've been told that a limited number of attendees will randomly receive signed copies, so we wish you luck!

• Seating will be assigned. The first people who purchase tickets will be assigned front row seating and we will continue to fill the rows in the order that the tickets were purchased. While we will try our absolute best to accommodate groups of 2 next to each other, there is a possibility that you and your plus one will be seated in different rows (though likely close together, directly in front/behind each other).

Event Details:

Date: Tuesday, June 7th Start time: 7:30pm Doors open: 6:30pm Place: Loew's Jersey City (at Journal Square): 54 Journal Square Plaza, Jersey City, NJ 07306 Directions: Take the PATH train to Journal Square. You'll see the glittering lights of the Landmark Loew's marquee directly across the street. Fine Print: We are unable to issue refunds for any reason.

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PENGUIN BOOKSHOP SEWICKLEY, PA

JUNE 8th 2016 (7-8pm)

The Penguin Bookshop Presents...

"An Evening with Stephen King"

*** Wednesday, June 8th, 7:00PM Doors will open at 6:00PM Event will be held at: Sewickley Academy's Rea Auditorium 315 Academy Avenue Sewickley, PA 15143 • Due to capacity limits, each person is allowed to purchase a maximum of 2 tickets. • Purchasing a ticket guarantees entry to the event as well as a hardcover edition of END OF WATCH. As a special bonus, a limited number of attendees will randomly receive signed copies, so we wish you luck! All books (signed and unsigned) will be distributed at the end of the event. • Seating will be assigned. Purchasers of the Premium tickets (limited) will be seated in the first two rows of the auditorium. Those who purchase General Assigned Seating tickets will be assigned a specific seat (no specific seat requests will be allowed) and we will fill the rows in the order that the tickets are purchased. While we will try our absolute best to accommodate groups of 2 next to each other, there is a possibility that you and your plus one will be seated in different rows (though likely close together, directly in front/behind each other). Ticket sales will take place on three consecutive days: • Sunday, April 17th, 11AM - 3PM at the Penguin Bookshop only (no on-line or phone orders). • Monday, April 18th, 10AM - 6PM at the Penguin Bookshop only (no on-line or phone orders). • Tuesday, April 19th starting at 10AM we will begin selling any remaining tickets over the phone. • We will not be selling any tickets on-line. Note: We will NOT take phone calls on April 17 or 18. Ticket Prices: $38.00 General Assigned Seating $50.00 Friends of the Penguin priority seating (limited availability -- a portion of these tickets will be donated to the Sewickley Academy Auction) We are unable to offer refunds for any reason. All tickets include a copy of End of Watch. Stephen King will pre-sign 400 copies of End of Watch, which will be handed out randomly after the conclusion of his talk. NO ONE IS GUARANTEED A SIGNED BOOK. For all of you who are coming to Sewickley for the Sunday, April 17 in-store ticket sale, we ask that you are considerate while waiting in line outside the store, that you do NOT save spaces for friends/family, that you respect the community, and that you are patient and kind to all those concerned with the ticket sales at the Penguin Bookshop.

BOOKS & CO. DAYTON, OH

JUNE 9th 2016

Books & Co. Presents an Evening with Stephen King Thursday, June 9th, 2016, 6:30PM Doors open at 5:30PM Venue: Victoria Theatre 138 N. Main. St., Dayton, OH 45402 937-228-3630

Please join us for an evening with Stephen King on stage at the historic Victoria Theatre as he talks about his new book, End of Watch .

Tickets for “An Evening with Stephen King” are limited and available for purchase beginning Wednesday, April 13 at 10 a.m. at the Victoria Theatre or online at my.ticketcenterstage.com . Each ticket guarantees entry to the event, as well as one unsigned hardcover edition of “End of Watch” at the end of the event. As a special bonus, 400 lucky attendees will randomly receive a pre-signed copy of the novel! Seating will be assigned based on the order the tickets are purchased, so fans are encouraged to act quickly!

Ticket sales are final and nonrefundable. Due to capacity limits, each person is allowed to purchase up to four tickets. Additional copies of the unsigned new book along with the two previous books in the series, “Mr. Mercedes” and “Finders Keepers,” will also be available for purchase at the event.

TAYLOR BOOKS CHARLESTON, WV

JUNE 10th 2016

Tickets are $35 and go on sale April 1st For ticket purchasing please visit The Clay Center website.

Doors open at 5:30pm. Showtime is 6:00pm Taylor Books proudly presents legendary author Stephen King at the Clay Center, June 10, 2016 at 6pm as part of the End of Watch book tour. End of Watch is the final book of the Bill Hodges Trilogy which includes the titles Mr. Mercedes and Finders Keepers. This event will involve a reading and talk followed by a short Q&A. Each ticket will include a first edition of End of Watch. Mr. King will pre-sign 400 copies of End of Watch which will be randomly distributed, along with the other first editions, to ticket holders at the end of the event. This event will not include a public book signing.

Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes the short story collection The Bazaar of Bad Dreams, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel). His novel 11/22/63—now a Hulu original television series event—was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. He is the recipient of the 2014 National Medal of Arts and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

PARNASSUS BOOKS NASHVILLE, TN

JUNE 11th 2016

Salon@615 is excited to announce that Stephen King will appear at the Ryman Auditorium on June 11 at 8pm . Tickets are $38.50, and will be available for purchase via this link beginning on Friday, April 15 at 10am . Each ticket guarantees entry to the event as well as 1 copy of the hardcover edition of End of Watch . Ticket sales are limited to 4 per person. Please note: this event will not include a public book signing. Books will be given out at the end of the event. As a special bonus, signed copies will be distributed randomly to 400 lucky attendees.

CARMICHAEL'S BOOKSTORE LOUISVILLE, KY

JUNE 12th 2016

Carmichael’s Bookstore is thrilled to host Stephen King, one of the most prolific and beloved writers of our time. Our event will take place at Iroquois Amphitheater on Sunday, June 12th at 7 PM.

Mr. King will discuss his work and read from the third volume in his Bill Hodges Trilogy, End of Watch . He will also take questions from the audience. End of Watch will be released on June 7th just days before his appearance in Louisville. We’ll finish up the evening with a showing of one of the most popular films based on his work, Stand By Me .

Tickets for this event are $32 each and include general admission to the event and movie and a hardcover copy of End of Watch . Mr. King will not be signing after the event, however 400 lucky ticket holders’ copies will be autographed in advance. Distribution of the signed books will be completely random.

Tickets will go on sale Saturday, March 26th and can be purchased online at www.iroquoisamphitheater.com or at the Iroquois Amphitheater box office Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Event Details Date – Sunday, June 12 Start time – 7 PM Doors Open – 6 PM Location: Iroquois Amphitheater, New Cut Road & Kenwood Drive Fine Print: Tickets are limited to 4 per person and are nonrefundable.

PRAIRIE LIGHTS IOWA CITY, IA

JUNE 13th 2016

Prairie Lights Presents an Evening with Stephen King

Prairie Lights is fortunate to be one of only twelve bookstores selected to host Stephen King for End of Watch.

Monday June 13th 7pm Tickets $37.50

Please join us for an evening with Stephen King on stage at the Englert Theatre as he talks about his new book, End of Watch . Stephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes the short story collection The Bazaar of Bad Dreams , Finders Keepers , and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel). His novel 11/22/63— now a Hulu original television series event—was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. He is the recipient of the 2014 National Medal of Arts and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. We are thrilled to have him visit Iowa City.

Each ticket will include a first edition of End of Watch . Mr. King will pre-sign a limited number of copies of End of Watch , which will be randomly distributed, along with the other first editions, to ticketholders at the end of the event. This event will not include a public book signing.

Tickets available March 23rd at the Englert Theatre (319) 688-2653 www.englert.org

THE BOOKWORM OMAHA, NE

JUNE 14th 2016

THE BOOKWORM PRESENTS AN EVENING WITH AUTHOR STEPHEN KING

TUESDAY, JUNE 14TH at 7 p.m. HOSTED BY KANEKO

OMAHA’S OLD MARKET 1111 JONES STREET, OMAHA 68102

ADMISSION GOES ON SALE ON April 24th AT 7 P.M. $35/ADMISSION, INCLUDES A HARDCOVER COPY OF END OF WATCH

King will discuss his work, read from his latest novel, End of Watch , and take questions from the audience. While King will not be signing books at the event, he will sign 400 copies in advance that will be distributed randomly to lucky attendees.

Event, Ticketing Details:

Event admission goes on sale on April 24th at 7 p.m. CDT at: http://bookwormomaha.com/king

Admission to the event is $35 and includes a hardcover copy of End of Watch . We wish you luck, but no one is guaranteed a signed book. All books (signed and unsigned) will be distributed randomly at the end of the event.

This is a ticketless event and seating is general admission. At the time of purchase you will be required to include the name and address for each admission purchased. To gain admission to the event, each attendee must present their photo ID at check-in and your ID(s) must match the name(s) of the admission(s) purchased.

Due to capacity limits, each person is allowed to purchase a maximum of two admissions. If you purchase two admissions, you must check-in together.

All admissions/books are final purchase, non-transferable and non-refundable. Minimum age is 16 for entrance. A processing fee of up to $3/per admission applies.

BOOKSMART TULSA TULSA, OK

JUNE 15th 2016

Tickets will go on sale April 1 for the Tulsa appearance by best-selling novelist Stephen King, who will speak June 15 at Cain’s Ballroom, 423 N. Main St. Tickets are $35 for general admission seating, $30 for standing room, and will be available on line at cainsballroom.com. King’s appearance, which coincides with the release of his latest novel, “End of Watch,” is co-sponsored by BookSmart Tulsa, the Tulsa Literary Coalition and Magic City Books, the new independent book store scheduled to open in the Brady Arts District in 2017.

The evening will feature food from Oklahoma Joe’s BBQ and beverages from Cain’s available for purchase. The band the Fabulous Minx will perform prior to King taking the Cain’s Ballroom stage at 7 p.m.

A copy of “End of Watch” will be included with each ticket sold; purchasers will obtain the book the night of the event. A total of 400 copies will be signed editions that will be randomly distributed to patrons.

Additional copies of “End of Watch” will also be available for purchase at the event, along with the two previous books in this series: the Edgar Award-winning “Mr. Mercedes” and “Finders Keepers.”

The trilogy centers around former police detective Bill Hodges, who is lured out of retirement by Brady Hartsfield, who drove a stolen car into a crowd of people and who taunts Hodges with the fact that he committed the crime and was never caught.

Hartfield returns in “End of Watch,” something King had promised upon accepting the 2015 Edgar Award for best novel for “Mr. Mercedes.”

For more information about Magic City Books and the Tulsa Literary Coalition, see the link below.

Magic City Books in Tulsa is partnering with Circle Cinema to offer a live simulcast of the Stephen King event at Cain's Ballroom. They will also be showing Stand By Me after the talk. Ticket price is $5. Order Tickets

BOOKSWORKS ALBUQUERQUE, NM

JUNE 16th 2016

Stephen King to Appear with George RR Martin at Albuquerque End of Watch Tour

ALBUQUERQUE—Longtime Albuquerque indie bookstore, Bookworks, hosts Stephen King June 16 at the Kiva Auditorium at the Albuquerque Convention Center, one of twelve stops on a national tour promoting his new novel, End of Watch . What was already an unbelievable event opportunity has become even more notable, with a very special guest announced as part of the billing.

George RR Martin, Game of Thrones creator, beloved New Mexico author, and patron of the arts, will join King on stage at the Kiva Auditorium, for conversation and an element of literary fantasy that fans of the esteemed authors will find hard to resist.

“We were talking one day at the store about the event, daydreaming about how we would ever be able to score an event more epic than Stephen King. ‘But what if we got George RR Martin to interview Stephen King,’” recalls Bookworks event coordinator Amanda Sutton. Martin has been a friend of indie booksellers in New Mexico and has taken part in several events with the store, including a sold-out in-conversation event with Diana Gabaldon in 2013. Martin also frequently hosts renowned authors at his Jean Cocteau Cinema in Santa Fe.

During a conference call with King’s assistant and publicist at Scribner, the Bookworks team mentioned the idea to have the two authors appear together.

The pieces fell into place when Martin contacted his agent, Chris Lotts, also Stephen King’s agent, expressing interest in hosting King at the Cocteau. No new events were able to be added to the tour, but Martin was invited and graciously agreed to join the bill for the Albuquerque event. He will be in conversation with Stephen King’s son, author Joe Hill, in May 23 at the Cocteau upon release of his book The Fireman. On June 16, Martin will appear with King at the Kiva Auditorium. Both authors are delighted to share the stage.

The authors will sign books prior to the event. Every attendee will receive an End of Watch hardcover with ticket purchase, with 400 signed copies to be distributed at random. End of Watch is the third book in the Bill Hodges trilogy, which began with Mr. Mercedes , an Edgar Award winner, followed by Finders Keepers . All the books in the trilogy, along with many of Mr. King’s titles, will be available at the event, as will signed books from Mr. Martin.

Tickets for Stephen King in Conversation with George RR Martin are available online at bkwrks.com/stephen-king , by phone at 505-344-8139, or in person at Bookworks, at 4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW, Albuquerque.

MEDIA NOTE: Please contact Amanda Sutton, Bookworks Events & Marketing for more information or to inquire about media opportunities: [email protected] or 505-344-8139.

THE KING'S ENGLISH BOOKSHOP SALT LAKE CITY, UT

JUNE 17th 2016

We are thrilled to announce that The King's English Bookshop will host Stephen King at Juan Diego Catholic High School for his END OF WATCH tour. Thank you to everyone who purchased a ticket to this event. For those attending, each ticket guarantees entry as well as 1 copy of the hardback edition of End of Watch. As a special bonus, a limited number of attendees will randomly receive signed copies. We wish everyone luck!

Please remember that: • Tickets can only be purchased at BrownPaperTickets.com . Orders cannot be taken through our website or at the bookshop. • Maximum 2 tickets per purchase. • All tickets are nontransferable and you will be required to show ID at the door. • All seats are General Admission • We will have extra copies of End of Watch as well as Mr. Mercedes and Finders Keepers for sale the night of the event. Event Details:

Date: Friday, June 17 Start time: 7:00pm Doors open: 6:30pm Place: Juan Diego Catholic High School Directions: 300 East 11800 South Draper Fine Print: We are unable to issue refunds for any reason.

BARNES & NOBLE RENO, NV

JUNE 18th 2016

Instructions for Email Reservations Stephen King Event June 18, 2016 at Reno Barnes & Noble

In order to accommodate as many customers as possible, please read through the criteria carefully before sending an email. Any email missing pertinent information will not be considered or accepted for reservations.

We will begin accepting reservations on Wednesday, April 13 starting at 8:00 PST . Only email received after that time will be considered for reservation. Reservations are limited, and will be given on a first come first served basis Email Criteria:

Do not email before 8:00 am Wednesday April 13. Only emails received Wednesday April 13, 8:00am (Pacific Time) or later will be considered for reservations.
We will take email requests in the order they are received.
One email, per person, will receive confirmation, if another person is coming with you, they will need to send an email from a separate email address requesting reservation. No exceptions. You must receive a confirmation from Barnes & Noble Reno, if your reservation has been confirmed.
Subject line should state: Stephen King Event Reservation Request.
Please place your full name and phone number in the body of the email.
On the day of the event, Saturday June 18th, please bring a hard copy of your email confirmation with you. At that time you will be allowed into the store to purchase a pre-signed copy of 'End of Watch'. At the time of book purchase you will receive wristband. The wrist band will permit you to attend the Stephen King at the 1:00 pm start time.
No phone reservations will be considered.
Seating is limited in event space.

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Directed by James Ponsoldt (" The Spectacular Now "), "The End of the Tour" might fit well on a double bill with " Amadeus ," another film about a genius and a lesser artist who basks in his aura. Of course, the setting is very different, and the stakes are much lower—"Tour" is a fictionalized account of the week-and-a-half that Rolling Stone writer David Lipsky spent following the late David Foster Wallace as he toured to promote his doorstop-sized masterpiece "Infinite Jest"—but it's still the story of a competent but unremarkable creative person observing brilliance up close, feeding on it, reveling in it and resenting it.

It is also certainly one of cinema's finest explorations of an incredibly specific dynamic—that of the cultural giant and the reporter who fantasizes about one day being as great as his subject, and in the same field. What it definitely isn't is a biography of David Foster Wallace, much less a celebration of his work and worldview. Whether that proves a deal breaker, a bonus, or a non-factor for viewers will depend on what they want out of this movie.

"The End of the Tour" is not really about Wallace ( Jason Segel ), although he's the other major character. It starts with Lipsky ( Jesse Eisenberg ) expressing amazement (but really jealousy) over a rave review of "Infinite Jest" in New York magazine, a moment that sparks his obsession with Wallace. It ultimately leaves us thinking about Lipsky's feelings and career trajectory, and whether he feels any guilt about using his brief association with Wallace to further his own career as a writer of books. At this point in his life, Lipsky has had just one volume published, a novel that few people bought and fewer read; after some hesitation, he foists it on Wallace while visiting him at the University of Illinois during a punishingly icy winter.

The screenplay by Donald Margulies spends most of its time and energy observing a dance. One dancer is Lipsky. He only got Rolling Stone to pay for his rock-star style profile of a novelist by agreeing to ask Wallace about the rumors that he uses heroin, and his motivations for doing the story are, to put it mildly, less than noble. The other dancer is Wallace. His fiction and nonfiction were partly concerned with the meaning of the word "authenticity," and how the social rituals and technology and economic structure of modern life created false intimacies that Wallace was determined to reject.

Theirs is a complex relationship, brief as it is. The most fascinating thing about it is how each side of it seems to be happening in a different storytelling genre.

Wallace's side of the story is something along the lines of a light drama, perhaps even a romance, about somebody who's been burned over and over and has withdrawn from nearly all relationships save for a handful that he feels he can trust and believe in. Although the small part of the world that cares about writers' private lives thinks of Wallace as a bit of a recluse and perhaps a bit mysterious, it's immediately clear that he's just selective and self-protecting. It's the story of a man learning to trust again (in a love story, it would be "to love again") while worrying that he's going to get burned one more time. Lipsky isn't a Wallace-level intellect, he is very smart, and a good listener, and excellent at getting subjects to open up, even though his demeanor is presumptuous. He doesn't approach Wallace with the appropriate humility. He instead comes at him from the point-of-view of a writer who believes that he is Wallace's potential equal—somebody as profound as Wallace but not as accomplished or famous, for now. Wallace seems to buy this. Why? Maybe because he's a teacher, and at least a few of his students have real talent, and he doesn't want his ego or insecurity to rule out the possibility that he might cross paths with an artist. Or maybe he's just a decent, optimistic guy.

Lipsky's side of the story often feels like the story of of a con man, or a regular person who uses other people without realizing that's what he's doing. If this were a romantic drama, Lipsky might be a drug user who swears he's gotten clean, or a recovering alcoholic who's not as far along in the process as he claims to be, or a serial cheater who wants everyone to think he's reformed and can be monogamous even though he's constitutionally incapable of that. We keep waiting for the other shoe to drop—for Wallace, who genuinely likes Lipsky even though he's observant enough to spot all the warning signs immediately, to realize that Lipsky cannot have a real friendship with him, and that in general it is a bad idea for a subject to think that he can have that kind of relationship with a reporter.

Any journalist who's been profiling famous people for any length of time will recognize the dynamic depicted here by Ponsoldt, Eisenberg and Jason Segel, and the honest ones will be made uncomfortable by it. There is something vampiric about features like the one that Lipsky has been assigned to write. There are also elements of theatricality. As Wallace observes early on, the subject is expected to give a performance of sorts, imitating the person he'd like to be perceived as being. The reporter in turn playacts casual curiosity, and tries to push past the facade and find something real, maybe uncomfortable, best of all revelatory.

Segel and Eisenberg, who as movie stars have been in Wallace's position many times, have an intuitive understanding of how this relationship works, and they illuminate it in the moment, with specificity and clarity. Segel doesn't really look or sound like Wallace (not that that matters; Anthony Hopkins didn't look or sound like Nixon in " Nixon " but was extraordinary) and I didn't necessarily buy him as somebody who could write like Wallace, but he's so smart and genuine and peculiar that we believe he is capable of Wallace's extreme sensitivity and delicate observations—a major accomplishment. Eisenberg is the true star of the movie—an actor of extraordinary originality and also bravery, insofar as he never seems to trouble himself with whether people will hate his characters. He's a great listener but also a rather scary one. His characters often seem to be scrutinizing other characters the way a snake might scrutinize a field mouse. There are many moments in "The End of the Tour" when we dislike Lipsky. There are a few moments where we might find him sickening.

Is this a story that will fascinate an audience beyond editors, critics, reporters, novelists, and people who care about the problems of such people? I have no idea, though it seems unlikely; the film's incredible specificity would seem to mitigate against being discovered and championed by a wide audience, despite Segel and Eisenberg's presence in the cast. Did the film necessarily need to have David Foster Wallace as one of its two main characters? That's a thornier question. We rarely hear any of his prose read aloud (Lipsky reads a passage of "Jest" to his girlfriend, but that's about it) and there is nothing in the film besides some of Wallace's dialogue to indicate that the movie has any interest in illuminating Wallace's fiction, or the obsessions that he worked into them.

It is very much an Amadeus and Salieri story, and if you are familiar with Amadeus, and the barest outlines of Wallace's life, and the fact that this is based on a nonfiction book by the writer David Lipsky, you know how the story must end: with Lipsky gaining a greater measure of fame via his brief association with Wallace and not being quite sure how to feel about it. The best thing you could say about "The End of the Tour" is that it could've been about any two creative people. That's also the worst thing you could say about it.

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Matt Zoller Seitz is the Editor at Large of RogerEbert.com, TV critic for New York Magazine and Vulture.com, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism.

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The End of the Tour (2015)

Rated R for language including some sexual references

106 minutes

Jason Segel as David Foster Wallace

Jesse Eisenberg as David Lipsky

Anna Chlumsky as Sarah

Mamie Gummer

Joan Cusack as Patty

Ron Livingston as David Lipsky's Editor

Mickey Sumner as Betsy

James Ponsoldt
Donald Margulies

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Olivia Rodrigo is officially done spilling her guts in North America — for now. After closing out the first leg of her Guts World Tour with four nights at Madison Square Garden, the 21-year-old pop star made sure to thank her fans and crew for making it special with a post on Instagram Thursday (April 11), as she gears up to take her trek to Europe later this month.

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The Grammy winner also included a picture of her posing backstage with Talking Heads frontman David Byrne. Other snaps show her performing on the Garden’s stage and hanging out with her best friends, musician Conan Gray — wearing a handmade tank that reads, “u call urself a Livie? name 10 olivia rodriguez songs” — and actress Madison Hu, behind the scenes.

The “Vampire” singer will resume her Guts Tour April 30 in Dublin, after which she’ll spend the first half of summer traveling through the U.K., Germany, France, Spain and more countries. In July, she’ll return for a second North American leg, ending with four performances at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, Cali.

In her caption, she excitedly added, “see u soon europe!!!!”

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Golfing greats Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and Tom Watson have all called for unity between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf to get the world’s best back playing together frequently in a ‘fractured’ sport.

The all-star trio fulfilled their roles as Honorary Starters at The Masters, following a two-and-a-half-hour weather delay at Augusta National, before discussing the state of the men's game during a lengthy press conference.

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Watson told reporters about speaking to past winners at Tuesday's Champions Dinner about how great it was to have players from both circuits competing against each other, something he wants to see more frequently in the future.

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"I think in this room, I know the three of us want to get together. We want to get together like we were at that Champions Dinner, happy and the best players playing against each other. The bottom line is that's what we want in professional golf, and right now, we don't have it."

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Rahm said earlier this week about how he still loves the PGA Tour and was open to competing on the circuit again, although Player believes it's going to be challenging to get players back together.

"In any business whatsoever, where there's confrontation, it's unhealthy," Player said. "You've got to get together and come to a solution. The public don't like it and we as professionals don't like it either.

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"It's a big problem because they paid all these guys to join the LIV tour, fortunes beyond comprehension. I really believe that the players who were loyal should be compensated in some way or another, otherwise there will be dissension."

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‘Sudden’ Sam McDowell returning to Cleveland for talk, Q&A, book signing

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Sam McDowell, former Cleveland pitcher, is scheduled to be in Cleveland for a talk and dinner event. The Plain Dealer

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CLEVELAND, Ohio – Former Cleveland pitching great Sam McDowell is scheduled to hold a talk and book-signing event with Marty Gitlin, co-author of his autobiography, this month.

“An Evening with ‘Sudden’ Sam McDowell” is set for 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, April 18, at The Aviator in Cleveland.

The two collaborated on “The Saga of Sudden Sam: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of Sam McDowell,” a 2022 book published by Rowman & Littlefield.

McDowell played 15 seasons in the big leagues, including 11 in Cleveland. He last appeared in the Majors in 1975. He was one of the game’s top left-handed pitchers whose life spiraled into addiction before he found the path to recovery.

Participants will have a chance to hear McDowell, 81, talk about his career and life as a counselor before a question-and-answer session.

Cost is $40 and includes buffet dinner and McDowell-signed baseball card. Books will be for sale at the event. Goto eventbrite.com .

The Aviator is at 20920 Brookpark Road, Cleveland.

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Friends of the victim, identified as Thomas Krider, said he was a beloved character in the “Star Trek” and entertainment community.

Ronald Rayher was arrested and arraigned on charges of manslaughter in the second degree and tampering with physical evidence.

Court documents said Rayher moved and hid personal effects belonging to Krider from the scene after his death.

Police in New York reported Krider missing on April 6.

The 40-year-old victim, also known as T.J. Green, was an employee and tour guide at the “Star Trek” set tour in Ticonderoga.

James Crawley, a friend of the victim, said Krider was also a talented Elvis Presley tribute artist and “he will be remembered for his kind and trusting soul and his warm, friendly demeanor.”

“We are devastated by his loss and will keep him close to our hearts,” Krider said.

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The End of the Tour is a 2015 American drama film about writer David Foster Wallace.The film stars Jason Segel and Jesse Eisenberg, was written by Donald Margulies, and was directed by James Ponsoldt.Based on David Lipsky's best-selling memoir Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself, screenwriter Margulies first read the book in 2011, and sent it to Ponsoldt, a former student of his ...
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The End of the Tour: Directed by James Ponsoldt. With Jesse Eisenberg, Jason Segel, Anna Chlumsky, Mamie Gummer. The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite Jest.'
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The End of the Tour. HD. A journalist interviews author David Foster Wallace at the conclusion of the promotional tour for his sprawling novel Infinite Jest. 1,295 IMDb 7.2 1 h 46 min 2015. X-Ray HDR UHD R. Drama · Cerebral · Compelling · Philosophical. Free trial of Cinemax, rent, or buy.
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The End of the Tour
Feb 06, 2016. Jason Segel and Jesse Eisenberg star in the powerful character drama The End of the Tour. Based on a novel by Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky, the film follows a five-day ...
Review: 'The End of the Tour' Offers a Tale of Two Davids
Directed by James Ponsoldt. Biography, Drama. R. 1h 46m. By A.O. Scott. July 30, 2015. "There's an unhappy paradox about literary biographies," David Foster Wallace observed in The New York ...
The End of the Tour
The End of the Tour tells the story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter and novelist David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel), which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, "Infinite Jest." As the days go on, a tenuous yet ...
The End of the Tour: What you Need to Know
The David Foster Wallace biopic, The End of the Tour, finally arrives in theaters next week. The film follows a five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky ( Jesse Eisenberg ...
David Lipsky on David Foster Wallace and The End of the Tour
The End of the Tour, out now, is the true story of two thirtysomething writers named David: one, played by a bespectacled and bandana-ed Jason Segel, is the novelist David Foster Wallace, who's ...
'The End Of The Tour' Review: Jesse Eisenberg & Jason Segel Bring
Based on a bestselling book by Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky, the movie recounts the five-day 1996 interview session Lipsky conducted with acclaimed author David Foster Wallace, whose massive…
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Taken as a film about two fictional characters, "The End of the Tour" is a stimulating delight. But it's awfully hard to call it a true honor to its subject's memory. 'The End of the ...
The End of the Tour (2015)
The book, titled Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace, became the basis for The End of the Tour movie. -The Center for Fiction David Foster Wallace's 1,079-page novel Infinite Jest is a satire about the entertainment-obsessed culture in America.
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The End of the Tour. Movie 2015. R 1 HOUR 46 MINS Drama. A Rolling Stone journalist accompanies a celebrated novelist on the last leg of his book tour. Movie Trailer 7.2 92 % Cast & Crew.
'The End of the Tour' Portrays David Foster Wallace on Book Tour
A book of interviews isn't an obvious source for a movie but that's where "The End of the Tour" began. The film is essentially a five-day conversation, based on real events.
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Where's the drama and, hell, the laughs in the nonspectacle of two writers talking with and at each other? For a riveting answer, check out The End of the Tour.The film is based on the 2010 book ...
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-The End of the Tour- ist dabei ein Dialogfilm, der für Literaturfreunde ein wahres Fest ist. Wer eher auf handlungsreiche Bilder steht, der dürfte nicht unbedingt auf seine Kosten kommen. Ponsoldt hat vor allem den Menschen David Foster Wallace im Visier. Der lässt nicht immer den genialen Schreiber durchblicken, sondern wirkt sehr oft so ...
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'The End Of The Tour' Is A Film For David Foster Wallace Buffs The movie, which draws from journalist David Lipsky's interviews with Wallace in 1996, offers an intriguing (if not altogether ...
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Directed by James Ponsoldt ("The Spectacular Now"), "The End of the Tour" might fit well on a double bill with "Amadeus," another film about a genius and a lesser artist who basks in his aura.Of course, the setting is very different, and the stakes are much lower—"Tour" is a fictionalized account of the week-and-a-half that Rolling Stone writer David Lipsky spent following the late David ...
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