05 April 2011

The Pale King

Nothing to do with music...Posthumous David Foster Wallace book, The Pale King, is being released April 15. This was in process when he committed suicide and apparently much of it was already complete - meaning those that are publishing now only had to organize his writing and did not add anything to it.

Read this guy's stuff. I could give you a bunch of superlatives and other adjectives to try and convince you to get into him, but just trust me on this one.

A few of his essays are here at Harper's. The final posting on that Harper's page is an excerpt from The Pale King.

2 comments:

  1. On of my favorite quotes of his is a response he gave to reporter that asked him why he wears a bandana all the time, "...so my head doesn't explode."

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