“Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.'' Those, of course, are the immortal opening words of Janet Malcolm’s book-length essay, “The Journalist and the Murderer.”
They are but one layer of the many-layered movie “The End of the Tour,” an unlikely but mesmerizing film rendering of the cat and mouse game played by Rolling Stone journalist David Lipsky and David Foster Wallace as the latter winds down his book tour for “Infinite Jest,” the tour de force novel that made Lipsky and everybody else from Wallace’s generational cohort feel as though they were destined to compete for, at best, second place for the rest of their lives.
On the Nose today, all of our panelists saw this movie. We’re ready to discuss it and link it up to a remarkable -- and remarkably similar -- profile of Stephen Colbert in which writer Joe Lovell seems to have pulled off one of those nifty burglaries.
GUESTS:
Theresa Cramer - writer and the editor of E-Content Magazine, where she covers the world of digital media, and founding editor of The Cut
James Hanley - co-founder ofCinestudio at Trinity College
Irene Papoulis - lecturer in the Allan K. Smith Center for Writing and Rhetoric at Trinity College
