The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas in Austin has opened its archival holdings related to The Pale King--David Foster Wallace's posthumous novel--for researchers. The materials were acquired as part of the late author's archive in 2010, but were retained by publisher Little, Brown until after the book's publication in 2011, and subsequent publication of the paperback edition this year. Wallace died in 2008.
The holdings, which were organized according to a spreadsheet developed by Wallace's editor, Michael Pietsch (now CEO of Hachette Book Group USA), include handwritten and typescript drafts, outlines, characters lists, research materials and a set of notebooks containing reading notes, names, snippets of dialogue, definitions, quotations and clippings.
