There's an extensive (and spoiler filled if you haven't finished it yet) conversation between Tucker Stone and Joe "Jog" McCulloch about The Pale King over at The Factual Opinion, No Pictures: A Conversation About The Pale King:
In this way, the theme of information processing is folded into Wallace’s work so that its very mode of delivery (fiction, essays, book reviews - whatever) might coax the reader into not just recognizing but thinking critically about the data swirl around them. This is not, obviously, an effect exclusive to Wallace -- some of his early works, like The Broom of the System and Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way (a novella now presented as the concluding story in Girl With Curious Hair) directly grapple with predecessors and influences in fiction and theory -- but it’s his uniquely personalized style, formal inquiry married to ‘self-analysis’ (as you put it), that I think has attracted even casual readers.
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