On the posthumous publication of The Pale King, The Daily Beast gathered together 6 leading novelists to talk about David Foster Wallace’s influence on them, his surprising humor, and his final work.

In "The Pale-Faced Lie", author David Crow describes how he spent most of his childhood on a Navajo Indian Reservation, where his father, a convicted felon, sought work after he was released from ...

“The Pale King” is composed of parts of the “something long” on which 46-year-old David Foster Wallace was working before he hanged himself at his home in Claremont on Sept. 12, 2008. Wallace — author ...