Pessl at Pitkins
Maud Newton and Lauren Cerand point out that Marisha Pessl, author of Special Topics in Calamity Physics will appear tonight at Mo Pitkin’s in New York as part of The Reader’s Room reading series. The event starts at 7pm and also features Lorin Stein, who translated Gregoire Bouiller’s book The Mystery Guest: An Account. Should be a…
continue readingJailhouse Tattoo of Revenge
On a more serious note… Besides being one of our most accomplished noir writers, besides being a single-minded force striving for the protection of our children, Andrew Vachss is also a visionary. Not in some mystical, magical way. But in a forward-scout or telescopic way. Quite simply, he sees things before you and I do. In 1986,…
continue readingHootie Had It Right!
I seem to recall a radio interview with Hootie and the Blowfish years ago. The boys talked about hitting the big time and all the usual stuff. But the one thing that stuck in my mind was how they claimed to have declined a massive advance in favor of a more modest one. Although…
continue readingLarry Brown in Field & Stream
This afternoon, I’m going to dash out of work like a kid released from sixth period algebra class so I can race over to my local bookstore. I don’t normally read Field & Stream but I’m told that the October issue contains a previously unpublished Larry Brown essay. The folks at Square Books describe the piece as…
continue readingSoduko Novels
Stephen Graham Jones, author of the ambitious Demon Theory, Bleed into Me, and others posted an entertaining open letter on his website pitching the idea of a Soduko novel. So, my pitch: instead of attempting to clone Da Vinci Code’s formula for success, its unprecedented domination of the marketplace, of the readership, I propose instead to…
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