Books to Read Before the Movie Comes Out

The July release of The End of the Tour follows Rolling Stone journalist Lipsky (played by Jesse Eisenberg) on the road with the late, brilliant novelist David Foster Wallace (played by Jason Segel) as he tours the country behind his now-legendary 1995 novel Infinite Jest. The best road movies have plenty of witty banter; and, in this case, a chatty journalist alongside the brightest mind of his generation is bound to combine buddy bonding with some unforgettable dialogue. But the fun of Although of Course, largely a transcript of Lipsky’s days’ worth of conversation with Wallace, is that it’s all over the place. An uncorked Wallace riffs on everything from Friends to experimental literature to why he has an Alanis Morissette poster in his house—ideas you want read, then immediately go back and reread, before leaping to the next.