Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Books: DFW Pale King buzz; Steinbeck made stuff up; S. King's musical

Stephen King and John Mellencamp are creating a musical. (Galleycat)  Maybe Ma was right and Jack 'n Diane were possessed by the devil?

Turns out that Steinbeck's Travels with Charley was mostly bullshit.  Well, he had a dog named Charley but other than that? (Metafilter)

Now that David Foster Wallace's last, unfinished novel is coming out (April 15) people are musing all over the place about it.  The Guardian contemplates the fact that the text was sitting on the study as Wallace hanged himself in the patio.  As far as the book itself, New York Magazine calls it unfinished like the Cathedral of St. John the Divine is unfinished; and it treats boredom, its subject, "as the leading edge of truths we’re desperate to avoid."

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