David Foster Wallace’s Last Novel Forthcoming

Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF writing in the New York Times, March 2, 2009

A third and final novel by David Foster Wallace will be released posthumously by his longtime publisher, Little, Brown & Company, The Associated Press reported. The novel, “The Pale King,” is expected to be released in 2010.

According to The New Yorker, which published excerpts of the manuscript on Monday, it focuses on a group of I.R.S. agents working in a Midwestern office and was about one-third complete in 2007. The novel was unfinished when Mr. Wallace committed suicide in September. Little, Brown said that it would release the book, which runs “several hundred thousand words,” along with “notes, outlines and other material,” according to The A.P.

Little, Brown previously announced that it would publish in April the 2005 graduation speech Mr. Wallace gave at Kenyon College in Ohio as a book called “This Is Water.”