Winter \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0New (Garden Planning) Moon<\/p>\n
Began reading Pale King last night. \u00a0David Wallace’s last, unfinished work, his editor organized it with permission of Wallace’s widow. \u00a0It’s the first work I’ve read of Wallace’s though not the first one I’ve bought. \u00a0I also own Infinite Jest, his breakout book, but never started it. \u00a0His prose is, well, wonderful.<\/p>\n
Observations, close observations, fly so fast and thick it seems he could not have spent time writing for he must have spent his entire day with his eyes wide, notebook in hand, seeing, hearing, tasting, feeling.<\/p>\n
This book has an improbable setting, the IRS in Peoria, Illinois, and will, I’m told, illuminate \u00a0boredom. \u00a0Though I’ve not read him before I’ll now read back into him. \u00a0He was called the greatest mind of this generation of writers. \u00a0I believe it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Winter \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0New (Garden Planning) Moon Began reading Pale King last night. \u00a0David Wallace’s last, unfinished work, his editor organized it with permission of Wallace’s widow. \u00a0It’s the first work I’ve read of Wallace’s though not … Continue reading Pale King<\/span>