New Yorker publishes new David Foster Wallace short story

New Yorker

The New Yorker recently published Backbone, a new short story by the one and only  David Foster Wallace.  If you love the late great author as much as I do, then any morsel from him is worth getting excited about.

“Every whole person has ambitions, objectives, initiatives, goals. This one particular boy’s goal was to be able to press his lips to every square inch of his own body.

His arms to the shoulders and most of his legs beneath the knee were child’s play. After these areas of his body, however, the difficulty increased with the abruptness of a coastal shelf. The boy came to understand that unimaginable challenges lay ahead of him. He was six.”

 

Read the whole thing here.    And watch out for The Pale King next month.

http://www.thehowlingfantods.com/dfw/