DAVID LIPSKY

Este libro, que incluye una introducción y un epílogo extraordinarios de puño y letra de Lipsky, muestra de manera asombrosamente fiel al Wallace conocido por sus lectores: esa mente lúcida, abierta, chisporroteante, divertida y, en ocasiones, retorcida que pulula en sus novelas, narraciones y ensayos. Un sujeto de grandes dimensiones físicas, humanas e intelectuales, que sucumbió al desenfreno mental de la celebridad mal entendida y supo recuperarse para seguir entregando a sus seguidores alma y cabeza a partes iguales. El lector verá a Wallace y Lipsky conversar sobre fama, literatura, cine, música y la vida en general, mientras juegan al ajedrez, pasean a los perros de Wallace, éste da una de sus divertidas clases universitarias, se atiborran de comida, fuman o se desplazan.

A mother s life is shattered when her painting is rejected by the critics and her son starts to realize that he must break the intense bond he and his mother share

Lipsky, a Rolling Stone writer and an award-winning novelist, chronicles daily life at the U.S. Military Academy during the most tumultuous period in its history. In 1998, West Point made David Lipsky an unprecedented offer: stay at the Academy as long as you like, go wherever you wish, talk to whomever you want, to discover why some of America''s most promising young people sacrifice so much to become cadets. Lipsky followed one cadet class into mess halls, barracks, classrooms, bars, and training exercises, from arrival through graduation. By telling their stories, he also examines the Academy as a reflection of our society: Are its principles of equality, patriotism, and honor quaint anachronisms or is it still, as Theodore Roosevelt called it, the most "absolutely American" institution? During arguably the most eventful four years in West Point''s history, Lipsky witnesses the arrival of TVs and phones in dorm rooms, the end of hazing, and innumerable other shifts in policy and practice known collectively as The Changes. He uncovers previously unreported scandals and poignantly evokes the aftermath of September 11, when cadets must prepare to become officers in wartime. Absolutely American spotlights a remarkable ensemble of characters: a former Eagle Scout who struggles with every facet of the program, from classwork to marching; a foul-mouthed party animal who hates the military and came to West Point to play football; a farm-raised kid who seems to be the perfect soldier, despite his affection for the early work of Georgia OKeeffe; and an exquisitely turned-out female cadet who aspires to "a career in hair and nails" after the Army. Thesecadets and their classmates are transformed in fascinating, sometimes astonishing, ways by one of America''s most mythologized and least understood challenges. Many of them thrive under the rigorous regimen; others battle endlessly just to survive it. A few give up the fight altogether. Lipsky''s extensive experience covering college students for Rolling Stone helped him gain an exceptional degree of trust and candor from both cadets and administrators. They offer frank insights on drug use, cheating, romance, loyalty, duty, patriotism, and the Army''s tortuous search for meaning as new threats loom.

Lors de la tournée promotionnelle d’Infinite Jest, le chefd’œuvre qui va lui conférer une gloire mondiale, David Foster Wallace digresse sur son époque – télévision, littérature, célébrité, sport, ad

Lipsky, a Rolling Stone writer and an award-winning novelist, chronicles daily life at the U.S. Military Academy during the most tumultuous period in its history.In 1998, West Point made David Lipsky an unprecedented offer: stay at the Academy as long as you like, go wherever you wish, talk to whomever you want, to discover why some of Americas most promising young people sacrifice so much to become cadets. Lipsky followed one cadet class into mess halls, barracks, classrooms, bars, and training exercises, from arrival through graduation. By telling their stories, he also examines the Academy as a reflection of our society: Are its principles of equality, patriotism, and honor quaint anachronisms or is it still, as Theodore Roosevelt called it, the most "absolutely American" institution? During arguably the most eventful four years in West Points history, Lipsky witnesses the arrival of TVs and phones in dorm rooms, the end of hazing, and innumerable other shifts in policy and practice known collectively as The Changes. He uncovers previously unreported scandals and poignantly evokes the aftermath of September 11, when cadets must prepare to become officers in wartime. Absolutely American spotlights a remarkable ensemble of characters: a former Eagle Scout who struggles with every facet of the program, from classwork to marching; a foul-mouthed party animal who hates the military and came to West Point to play football; a farm-raised kid who seems to be the perfect soldier, despite his affection for the early work of Georgia OKeeffe; and an exquisitely turned-out female cadet who aspires to "a career in hair and nails" after the Army. These cadets and their classmates are transformed in fascinating, sometimes astonishing, ways by one of Americas most mythologized and least understood challenges. Many of them thrive under the rigorous regimen; others battle endlessly just to survive it. A few give up the fight altogether. Lipskys extensive experience covering college students for Rolling Stone helped him gain an exceptional degree of trust and candor from both cadets and administrators. They offer frank insights on drug use, cheating, romance, loyalty, duty, patriotism, and the Armys tortuous search for meaning as new threats loom.

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, STARRING JASON SEGAL AND JESSE EISENBERG, DIRECTED BY JAMES PONSOLDTAn indelible portrait of David Foster Wallace, by turns funny and inspiring, based on a five-day trip with award-winning writer David Lipsky during Wallaces Infinite Jest tour In David Lipskys view, David Foster Wallace was the best young writer in America. Wallaces pieces for Harpers 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.Then Rolling Stone sent Lipsky to join Wallace on the last leg of his book tour for Infinite Jest, the novel that made him internationally famous. They lose to each other at chess. They get iced-in at an airport. They dash to Chicago to catch a make-up flight. They endure a terrible readers escort in Minneapolis. Wallace does a reading, a signing, an NPR appearance. Wallace gives in and imbibes titanic amounts of hotel television (what he calls an orgy of spectation). They fly back to Illinois, drive home, walk Wallaces dogs. Amid these everyday events, Wallace tells Lipsky remarkable thingseverything he can about his life, how he feels, what he thinks, what terrifies and fascinates and confounds himin the writing voice Lipsky had come to love. Lipsky took notes, stopped envying him, and came to feel about himthat grateful, awake feelingthe same way he felt about Infinite Jest. Then Lipsky heads to the airport, and Wallace goes to a dance at a Baptist church.A biography in five days, Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself is David Foster Wallace as few experienced this great American writer. Told in his own words, here is Wallaces own story, and his astonishing, humane, alert way of looking at the world; here are stories of being a young writerof being young generallytrying to knit together your ideas of who you should be and who other people expect you to be, and of being young in March of 1996. And of what it was like to be with andas he tells itwhat it was like to become David Foster Wallace."If you can think of times in your life that youve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they were valuable as human beings. The ability to do that with ourselves. To treat ourselves the way we would treat a really good, precious friend. Or a tiny child of ours that we absolutely loved more than life itself. And I think its probably possible to achieve that. I think part of the job were here for is to learn how to do it. I know that sounds a little pious."David Foster Wallace

En su bestseller Wikinomics, publicado en 2007, Don Tapscott y Anthony Williams nos mostraron cómo la colaboración de las multitudes estaba cambiando la manera en que las empresas se comunicaban, colaboraban, creaban valor y competian en un nuevo mercado global. Ahora, en el despertar de la crisis financiera, los principios de la wikieconomia se ha convertido en mas poderosos que nunca.Muchas de las instituciones que habian sido utiles durante decadas o siglos, ahora parecen estancadas en el pasado, incapaces de avanzar. En la actualidad en cualquier punto del globo, un nuevo y poderoso modelo de innovacion economica y social se esta extendiendo por todos los sectores, en los cuales la gente con iniciativa, pasion y experiencia aprovecha las herramientas de la red para comprometerse en crear un mundo mas prospero, justo y sostenible.Los autores nos muestran como en mas de una docena de campos - de las finanzas a la sanidad, de la ciencia a la educacion, de los medios de comunicacion a el medio ambiente- hemos llegado a un momento historico decisivo: continuar aferrados a los paradigmas de la vieja era industrial o utilizar la innovacion de la colaboracion para revolucionar no solo en la forma en la que trabajamos, sino tambien como vivimos, aprendemos, inventamos, gobernamos y cuidamos unos de otros.A traves de los datos obtenidos de su propia investigacion, una vez mas, Tapscott y Williams nos sorprenden con nuevos y vividos ejemplos de organizaciones que han adoptado con exito los principios de la wikieconomia para cambiar el mundo.

En su bestseller Wikinomics, publicado en 2007 por Paidós, Don Tapscott y Anthony Williams nos mostraron cómo la colaboración de las multitudes estaba cambiando la manera en que las empresas se comunicaban, colaboraban, creaban valor y competian en un nuevo mercado global. Ahora, en el despertar de la crisis financiera, los principios de la wikieconomia han adquirido mayor fortaleza que nunca.