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The Pale King David Foster Wallace
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company

The Pale King, David Foster Wallace – Little, Brown and Company, 2011. Actually, what I intended for April was a review of David Foster Wallace's, The Pale King, which I finished reading near the end of the month. But you should, indeed, read it. The details: three scenes of three pages each, and one scene that runs 14 pages. The new David Foster Wallace novel sounds like the dullest book of all time. You can't read The Pale King, David Foster Wallace's final novel, without thinking of the author's death. The Pale King is, in a word, profound. On April 10th, The Pale King will come out in paperback with four previously unpublished scenes. The piece by Wallace is a chunk of the novel he left unfinished when he died. However, I am not too, too jealous in this case. The March 9 issue follows through with two articles, one by Wallace and one on Wallace. Major characters: IRS employees. Earlier this week, I mentioned that The New Yorker has published a work by David Foster Wallace entitled Backbone, an excerpt from The Pale King. The structure then partly seems to be that the characters in The Pale King work at the “IRS Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois,” but their stories are told (partly) through their childhoods.