Steven's Reviews > Conversations with David Foster Wallace

As with nearly all the books in this Conversations with . . . series you have to wade through a lot of repetition because basically you get two or three interviews from each book tour and the same intro info and basic questions are covered and in this case DFW was giving his stock answers pretty much in every interview. The McCaffery interview is pretty much worth the price of the book though because it has an extended version that includes about 2000 words not in the originally published interview. McCaffery was well-prepared and had the intellectual heft to hang with DFW and that allowed for a more nuanced give and take - a true interview.