Posthumous pub date for DFW

Illustration by Jillian Tamaki

The New Yorker re-evaluates the work of the late American novelist David Foster Wallace in light of his lifelong struggle with depression.

The author, who committed suicide last September, was by turns loved and loathed for his fascination with the narrative of consciousness. The lengthy article also drops a teeny tiny literary bomb: It seems Wallace had been working on a novel, a mock-memoir he called The Pale King, since 1997. His wife Karen discovered the unfinished work after his death and Little Brown plans on publishing the partial manuscript in 2010. The story focuses on a group of employees at the Internal Revenue Service.

Can't wait until next year? Read an excerpt here.

--Flannery Dean