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&lt;p&gt;David Foster Wallace&#39;s highly-anticipated posthumous novel following the often tedious and laborious lives of a baker&#39;s dozen and then some of IRS employees working in a small town in Illinois is now available for purchase on various booksellers&#39; web sites, including Amazon.com and B&amp;amp;N.com.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;embeddedObject&quot; src=&quot;http://content.screencast.com/users/dloos/folders/Jing/media/f0fa676f-1b0a-42d5-8027-4dff98c51018/00000332.png&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;413&quot; height=&quot;271&quot; align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;The book, entitled &lt;em&gt;The Pale King&lt;/em&gt;, is slated for wide release on April 15th -- that is, on tax day, in honor of &lt;em&gt;TPK&lt;/em&gt;&amp;rsquo;s central characters&amp;rsquo; occupation: accounting. But it is, as has been mentioned, available to buy online right now.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Wallace&#39;s novel has already been reviewed by &lt;em&gt;The New York Times&lt;/em&gt; book critic Michiko Kakatuni, who calls &lt;em&gt;TPK&lt;/em&gt; &quot;deeply sad,&quot; &quot;deeply philosophical,&quot; &quot;lumpy but often stirring,&quot; &quot;by turns breathtakingly brilliant and stupefying dull,&quot; and &quot;funny, maddening and elegiac.&quot; Kakatuni also notes that, &quot;in a Kierkegaardian note at the end of this book,&quot; Wallace suggests that happiness is the ability to pay attention, to live in the present moment, and to find, as Wallace writes&lt;em&gt;, &lt;/em&gt;&quot;second-by-second joy + gratitude at the gift of being alive.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Happy reading.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;(NYT: Maximized Revenue, Minimized Existence)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Related: David Foster Wallace&#39;s Latest (and Posthumous) Novel About, Among Other Things, the IRS and Tedium, Will Be Released On Tax Day (April 15) in 2011)&lt;/p&gt;

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