On the posthumous publication of The Pale King, The Daily Beast gathered together six leading novelists to talk about David Foster Wallace’s influence on them, his surprising humor, and his final work.
Seth Colter Walls has been a senior reporter in "The Culture" section of Newsweek magazine since 2009. Previously, he worked as a writer and editor at The Daily Star in Beirut, Lebanon, and as a reporter in The Huffington Post's DC bureau. He regularly contributes essays to The Awl, and is a graduate of both NYU and Columbia University.
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