Monday, March 2, 2009

DFW's unfinished book to be published

Yippee!

A long, unfinished novel by David Foster Wallace is scheduled for a posthumous release next year."The Pale King," excerpted in The New Yorker magazine edition coming out Monday, is set in an Internal Revenue Service office in Illinois in the 1980s.

Wallace's longtime publisher, Little, Brown and Company, will release the novel. Little, Brown said in a statement Sunday that the novel runs "several hundred thousand words and will include notes, outlines, and other material."

2 comments:

Jennifer Chronicles (jenx67.com) said...

Wow. We'll never know how he would have ended it. What a loss.

Wek said...

Tremendous loss to the literary world. At least he did make an impact on this world before he ended his life.