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                    [ArticleID] => 847839
                    [Title] => Editor of David Foster Wallace promoted to CEO
                    [Summary] => 

The editor of Keith Richards' "Life" and David Foster Wallace's "The Pale King" has been named CEO of Hachette Book Group.

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They say nothing is sure in this life except death and taxes. In the case of The Pale King, David Foster Wallace’s final, unfinished novel (before he committed suicide in 2008), the two certainties are combined: the novelist himself is a fictional character in the book which takes on the lives of tax form examiners, a kind of slow-death existential crisis that leaches away the very humanity from most souls laboring at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois.

[DatePublished] => 2011-07-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136008 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804693 [AuthorName] => Scott R. Garceau [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) ) )
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                    [ArticleID] => 847839
                    [Title] => Editor of David Foster Wallace promoted to CEO
                    [Summary] => 

The editor of Keith Richards' "Life" and David Foster Wallace's "The Pale King" has been named CEO of Hachette Book Group.

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They say nothing is sure in this life except death and taxes. In the case of The Pale King, David Foster Wallace’s final, unfinished novel (before he committed suicide in 2008), the two certainties are combined: the novelist himself is a fictional character in the book which takes on the lives of tax form examiners, a kind of slow-death existential crisis that leaches away the very humanity from most souls laboring at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Regional Examination Center in Peoria, Illinois.

[DatePublished] => 2011-07-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136008 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804693 [AuthorName] => Scott R. Garceau [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) ) )
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