<b>NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, STARRING JASON SEGAL AND JESSE EISENBERG, DIRECTED BY JAMES PONSOLDT<br><br>An indelible portrait of David Foster Wallace, by turns funny and inspiring, based on a five-day trip with award-winning writer David Lipsky during Wallace’s <i>Infinite Jest</i> tour</b><br> <br>In David Lipsky’s view, David Foster Wallace was the best young writer in America. Wallace’s pieces for <i>Harper’s</i> magazine in the ’90s were, according to Lipsky, “like hearing for the first time the brain voice of everybody I knew: Here was how we all talked, experienced, thought. It was like smelling the damp in the air, seeing the first flash from a storm a mile away. You knew something gigantic was coming.”<br><br>Then <i>Rolling Stone</i> sent Lipsky to join Wallace on the last leg of his book tour for <i>Infinite Jest</i>, the novel that made him internationally famous. They lose to each other at chess. The