Jason Kottke called the recent Rolling Stone profile of David Foster Wallace “as close to a biography of David Foster Wallace as you’ll get,” and I think that’s exactly right.

Since that post nearly two weeks ago, I had a transatlantic flight and the article was not online in full, so I bought the issue of Rolling Stone at the airport. Not only is the article, by David Lipsky, the closest thing to a biography we will get (until we get one), but it’s so thorough that it’s difficult to imagine what additional substance a book-length version of same would provide.

According to Jason, RS just made the full version available online; do yourself a favor and check it out.