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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
Eliot Caroom
articles/2012/04/17/the-pale-king-s-depiction-of-irs-gets-fact-checked/pale-king-foster-wallace-so_msshoc
Suzy Allman, The New York Times / Redux
Eliot Caroom

Eliot Caroom

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