The New Yorker that hits the streets today has an excerpt from "The Pale King," the unfinished novel that David Foster Wallace was working on when he hanged himself at home in Claremont last September. Here's a long story from D.T. Max about Wallace and his struggle to surpass "Infinite Jest," an excerpt of the new book, an image of the manuscript, and a Washington Post story about the New Yorker's story.

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