In 1996, Wallace's novel Infinite Jest was a critical and popular success. The new movie The End of The Tour recreates the author's tour for that book. Originally broadcast March 5, 1997.

Jason Segel might not be the first actor you’d think of to play David Foster Wallace, the quirkily brilliant Midwestern author of expansive, inventive novels (of which the 1,100 plus-page tome ...

David Lipsky, contributing editor for Rolling Stone and author of "Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace." This segment aired on July 31, 2015.

The late David Foster Wallace still casts a long shadow over the literary world almost seven years after his suicide at age 46. Wallace is the subject of a new movie, The End of the Tour, which ...

But even at its draggiest, the film makes you feel lucky to be in the same room as David Foster Wallace. And I was once at his first big event in 1996 at a packed East Village bar called KGB.

The movie, which draws from journalist David Lipsky's interviews with Wallace in 1996, offers an intriguing (if not altogether convincing) portrait of the Infinite Jest author.