AViD Author Visit: David Lipsky

Hear David Lipsky discuss his new biography, Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace. Lipsky is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone magazine. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Magazine Writing, The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, and many other publications. He's the author of the novel, The Art Fair; a collection of stories, Three Thousand Dollars; and the bestselling nonfiction book, Absolutely American, which was a Time magazine Best Book of the Year, and was purchased by Touchstone/ABC TV. In the mid-nineties, Lipsky began an association with Miramax, working on the films The Pallbearer and Last of the High Kings. He has appeared on the Today show, Charlie Rose, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, American Public Radio's This American Life, and is a frequent contributor to NPR's All Things Considered. He has taught at Deerfield and Johns Hopkins, is the recipient of a Lambert Fellowship, a Media Award from GLAAD, a Henfield/Transatlantic Review award, a Henry Hoyns Fellowship, and a National Magazine Award. This author appears as part of the tenth anuual AViD (Authors Visiting in Des Moines) Author Series presented by the Des Moines Public Library.