I've Been Reading: Nikki Furrer of Pudd'nhead Books

At a loss for something to read? Every week Daily RFT will ask a specially-chosen St. Louisan what they've been reading. Brilliant ideas, just waiting to be stolen!

Nikki Furrer, owner, Pudd'nhead Books:

courtesy Random House

Although of Course You End up Becoming Yourself. A Rolling Stone reporter [David Lipsky] follows David Foster Wallace around for a profile. They fly to a reading and then up driving around. It was in 1996, at the tail end of when Infinite Jest was coming out, the end of the first rock-star tour. They talk about what it's like to be called the voice of your generation, writing, everything. The guy [Lipsky] is clearly a writer himself. He says, "I'm jealous to hell of this guy." There's a lot of male worship, boys looking up to other boys.

I'm a nerd. I'm a David Foster Wallace nerd. I don't give a shit. It's difficult to read because it's more of a transcript than anything else. It's for a David Foster Wallace fan. If you're not one, you're not going to like it. It just came out last week.

The Lonely Polygamist is also awesome. It's by Brady Udall. It's like John Irving writing Big Love. This guy in Utah has four wives and twenty children, and the book goes into everyone's different perspective. It's awesome in every possible way.