The Pale King

Too Much Fun: The 'Infinite Jest' Audiobook Has No Endnotes

The Huffington Post | Andres Jauregui | Posted 04.20.2012

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On March 27, Hachette Audio released David Foster Wallace's magnum opus "Infinite Jest" -- most of it, at least -- as a 56-hour-long audiobook. Th...

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Bored to Death

Cole Hill | Posted 04.19.2012

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"The IRS knows very well that such qualities help insulate them from public protest and political opposition, and that abstruse dullness is actually a much more effective shield than is secrecy," says David Foster Wallace's in "The Pale King."

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WATCH: Rapper Gets A Little Too Specific About Crime

Posted 12.20.2011

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The Pale King is back on Funny Or Die, and this time, the rapper tells it exactly like it is. In fact, he's so candid, he probably should learn to kee...

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A Conversation with Karen Green on Art and Forgiveness

Max Benavidez | Posted 11.19.2011

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Artist Karen Green's latest show, "Tiny Stampede," opens Sept. 24, and presents a view into widowhood that is both cleansing and illuminating without ignoring the finality of death.

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WATCH: Most Depressed Rapper Ever?

Posted 09.04.2011

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How does "The Pale King" set himself apart from all the other white rappers out there? Well, for starters, he's incredibly sad. Perhaps he can parlay ...

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How A Podiatrist Sign Became A Literary Icon

salon.com | Tracy Clark | Posted 07.04.2011

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F. Scott Fitzgerald's generation had its green light at the end of the dock in "The Great Gatsby," that symbol of unattainable dreams, and today's you...

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Death Becomes Them: The Imperfect Art of Posthumous Publishing

HuffingtonPost.com | Gregory Beyer | Posted 06.21.2011

When an author dies, what happens to his unfinished manuscripts? From Max Brod’s famous refusal to burn the papers left behind by his friend Franz K...

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A David Foster Wallace Primer

flavorwire.com | Posted 06.15.2011

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If you’re already a David Foster Wallace fan we’re guessing that you won’t need our help pointing out that tomorrow marks the publication of his...

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"The Pale King" Renews Debate: Should Books Be Published Posthumously?

AP | By HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 06.14.2011

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NEW YORK -- David Foster Wallace's "The Pale King," the year's most awaited and complicated literary novel, has renewed a very old debate. Published ...

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Book Review Roundup: David Foster Wallace's Posthumous Novel And A Guide To Modern Poetry

Posted 06.11.2011

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"The Pale King" by David Foster Wallace Slate Incomplete or not, The Pale King is whole enough, a fully imagined, often exquisitely fleshed-out ...

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Piecing Together A Posthumous David Foster Wallace Novel

nytimes.com | CHARLES McGRATH | Posted 06.08.2011

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In his office at Little Brown, where he is executive vice president and publisher, Michael Pietsch still has the tower of a manuscript and the handwri...

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Far From the Flames, I Empathize With David Foster Wallace in The Pale King

Tom Ruprecht | Posted 06.04.2011

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Friends of Wallace have already expressed worry that the author's suicide will affect how readers experience his posthumous The Pale King. I agree that it will. But is that really the reader's fault? And is it necessarily a bad thing?

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Fictional Novels Starring Non-Fictional Authors

flavorwire.com | Stephanie Hlywak | Posted 05.25.2011

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Authors often appear in their own works of fiction as thinly veiled surrogates -- Kilgore Trout is widely believed to be Kurt Vonnegut's alter ego, an...

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David Foster Wallace Excerpt From Unfinished Novel

The New Yorker | David Foster Wallace | Posted 05.25.2011

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Once when I was a little boy I received as a gift a toy cement mixer. It was made of wood except for its wheels--axles--which, as I remember, were thi...

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David Foster Wallace's 'The Pale King," An Unfinished Novel, Coming Next Year

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — A long, unfinished novel by David Foster Wallace is scheduled for a posthumous release next year. "The Pale King," excerpted in The ...

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