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The Pale King’s Depiction of IRS Gets Fact Checked
David Foster Wallace’s posthumous tax-obsessed novel ‘The Pale King’ gets fact checked against what really happens at the IRS.
Eliot Caroom
Published
Apr. 17 2012
4:45AM EDT
Suzy Allman, The New York Times / Redux
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