Michael Sheehan is a former editor-in-chief of Sonora Review, where he edited a tribute to the work of David Foster Wallace. His fiction has appeared recently in DIAGRAM and Conjunctions. He lives and writes in Washington DC.
Reviewing The Pale King is a difficult process, for a number of reasons. The most obvious of which include that it is a last novel (though we wish it weren’t) whose author isn’t alive to see its publication (though we wish that weren’t true) and it is an unfinished novel, whose author’s own intended shape is unknown.