Sunday, March 15, 2009

Wallace Unfinished


There's an interview on the NPR site with D.T. Max, who has just published a piece called "The Unfinished" in the March 9 issue of The New Yorker, the same issue in which a piece of Wallace's unfinished novel, here titled "Wiggle Room," appears.

The Max interview is interesting in its look at Wallace's work and the expectations put upon him by himself and by the literary community. It also dips into Wallace's suicide and the depression that plagued him.

The story, or excerpt, is as dense and wonderful and frustrating and impressive as is the rest of Wallace's work. Apparently the entirety of the unfinished novel will be published, though of course it is impossible, given Wallace's drive for precision or pursuit of perfection in voice and assembly of his larger works, to know if what we end up with is what he would have released on the world.

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