A brief preview of the David Foster Wallace collection at the University of Texas Harry Ransom Center ( Newsweek , 11/29) shows that Wallace was not actually the “purely pomo author” that he might seem. The collection contains notes and files for his unfinished and forthcoming Pale King , described as a “novel about IRS agents trying to make moral sense of bureacratized life,” and show that he did extensive research for the novel – taking accounting classes and sending off detailed questions to tax lawyers.
David Foster Wallace – the last of the realists?
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