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Something to Do with Paying Attention is a novella excerpted from The Pale King and touted as David Foster Wallace's final work of fiction by The New Yorker. It was published by McNally Editions and distributed by Simon & Schuster on April 5, 2022.
5 avr. 2022 · Something to Do with Paying Attention (McNally Editions) Paperback – April 5, 2022. When David Foster Wallace died in 2008, he left behind a vast unfinished novel—some 1,100 pages of loose chapters, sketches, notes, and fragments.
5 avr. 2022 · Something to Do with Paying Attention Paperback – April 5 2022. by David Foster Wallace (Author), McNally (Preface) 4.5 39 ratings. 4.2 on Goodreads. 973 ratings. See all formats and editions.
5 avr. 2022 · ‘Something to do with paying attention’ is the subversive redemption story of a self-proclaimed ‘wastoid’ who finds true purpose and heroism within the world of tax law.
5 avr. 2022 · Something to Do with Paying Attention first appeared as a long monologue in The Pale King – it comes about a quarter of the way through the book as Pietsch placed it – though Wallace had toyed with the idea of publishing it as a stand-alone novella.
Résumé. David Foster Wallace’s last finished work—“the most unusual conversion experience in confessional narrative” (Judith Shulevitz, Slate) When David Foster Wallace died in 2008, he left behind a vast unfinished novel—some 1,100 pages of loose chapters, sketches, notes, and fragments—published in 2011 as The Pale King.
Something to Do with Paying Attention has the spirit of [Wallace’s] best non-fiction, that of the set-apart morning, with a ray shining on the page. It both demonstrates his greatest gift and represents the desire to have this part of him set alone from the rest . . .
