David Foster Wallace

“A long, unfinished novel by David Foster Wallace is scheduled for a posthumous release next year,” according to a brief AP wire story. The AP says says the book, The Pale King, “is set in an Internal Revenue Service office in Illinois in the 1980s,” and, according to a press release — issued, strangely, on Sunday — from Wallace’s longtime pubisher, Little Brown, will consist of “several hundred thousand words and will include notes, outlines, and other material.”