The brief friendship between David Foster Wallace, a best-selling author struggling with personal issues, and David Lipsky, a Rolling Stone journalist floored by his latest novel, that took place when the latter interviewed the former on a promotional book tour isn’t one that seemed very likely to be told. In fact, had the real-life Lipsky […]

The story of Bethany Hamilton, a surfer back on the waves only one month after losing her right arm to a shark attack, is an incredibly inspiring and powerful one. It inspired a fiction film named Soul Surfer, which was certainly clichéd and predictable at points (“I don’t need easy. I just need possible” being […]