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Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace is a 2010 book by New York Times bestselling author David Lipsky, about a five day road-trip with the author David Foster Wallace.

Summary
Lipsky, a novelist and contributing editor at Rolling Stone Magazine, recounts his time spent with the Infinite Jest author at the moment when Wallace realized his work would bring him fame, and that this would change his life. The book was Lipsky's second consecutive New York Times bestseller.

Story
Lipsky, who received a National Magazine Award for writing about Wallace in 2009, here provides the transcript of, and commentary about, his time accompanying him across the country as Wallace began promoting the now-classic Infinite Jest. The format captures almost every moment the two spent together – on planes and cars, across the country -- during the week when Wallace first became famous;  the writers discuss literature, popular music and film, depression, the appeals and pitfalls of fame, dog ownership, and many other topics.

Reception
 Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself  was a New York Times bestseller and very positively reviewed by critics. National Public Radio critic Michael Schaub, calling the book "a startlingly sad yet deeply funny postscript to the career of one of the most interesting American writers of all time," described it as “crushingly poignant… endearing and fascinating." In Time Magazine, Lev Grossman wrote, "The transcript of their brilliant conversations reads like a two-man Tom Stoppard play or a four-handed duet scored for typewriter." Newsweek called it a “conversational entry point” into Wallace’s sometimes complex work, adding: “It's odd to think that a book about Wallace could serve both the newbies and the hard-cores, but here it is." The Atlantic Monthly called the work, "far-reaching, insightful, very funny, profound, surprising, and awfully human"; The Reviewer for The Awl declared, “I can't tell you how much fun this book is… It's a road picture, a love story, a contest: two talented, brilliant young men with literary ambitions, and their struggle to understand one another."