D.T. Max, the writer of the New Yorker article about David Foster Wallace’s work on his third and unfinished novel, answers a few reader questions about his piece. There are few more glimpses at The Pale King :

I don’t think characterization was what Wallace found hard in “Pale King.” There are several rich characters, among them Wallace (or his double) and a college student named Chris Fogle, who is “called to account” by one of his professors. Wallace chronicles Fogle’s story in some seventy pages. From the pages I saw, what was difficult was then setting them in motion in an interesting way, the architecture of a novel.

(thx, ben c.)