Composition and Publication
The collection's writing “overlapped” with Wallace's last novel, The Pale King, and many of the stories came from notebooks that he used to write the book and may have begun as sections of it.
Wallace first suggested a new collection of stories to his editor Michael Pietsch in October of 2001. Much of the editing appears to have been completed by October 2003. Published in June of 2004, the book sold eighteen thousand hardcover copies in its first year.
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