Young literary lion David Foster Wallace’s first piece of fiction in a major magazine, published exclusively in the June 1988 issue of Playboy

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In 1987, David Foster Wallace published his first novel, The Broom of the System, which the New York Times limned as, “Daring, hilarious...a zany picaresque adventure of contemporary America run amok.” The following year, in the June 1988 issue, Playboy published Late Night, his first piece of fiction in a major magazine. In the magazine’s Playbill section the editors described it as “a haunting short story featuring a certain gap-toothed talk-show host.” Wallace, whom the Associated Press eulogized as “an author of seemingly unstoppable curiosity, imagination and ambition,” died of an apparent suicide on September 12, 2008. He was 46 years old.