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&lt;p&gt;It&#39;s about time that accountants get their novel.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For years, their white-shoe cousins, investment bankers, have had a handful of great works of fiction to choose from to read about their ilk (Bret Easton Ellis&#39;s&lt;em&gt; American Psycho&lt;/em&gt;, Tom Wolfe&#39;s &lt;em&gt;The Bonfire of the Vanities&lt;/em&gt;, Adam Haslett&#39;s &lt;em&gt;Union Pacific&lt;/em&gt;, to name a few) whereas accountants haven&#39;t had even a single halfway decent novel to turn to when seeking to learn more about their own psyches, but thanks to the late, great David Foster Wallace, that&#39;s all about to change, next year at the close of tax season: on April 15, 2011, what accoutants (and all of us) have to look forward to is DFW&#39;s posthumous novel, The Pale King, which, along with a release date, now has cover art, provided by DFW&#39;s widow, Karen Green; among &lt;em&gt;TPK&lt;/em&gt;&#39;s subjects is &quot;an IRS tax-return-processing center in Illinois in the mid-1980s&quot; where &quot;a crew of entry-level processors attempts to do their job in the face of soul-crushing tedium.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Last year, &lt;em&gt;The New Yorker&lt;/em&gt; excerpted a few pages of the book, under the title Wiggle Room.&lt;/p&gt;

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