The View from the Podium

Author Ed Lin has a funny essay in Seattle's free weekly the Stranger about the oddballs he's met at some of his bookstore readings. We've never had folks like that at our genteel midwestern readings, I'm sure. That's more of a West Coast thing, right?--David E

So Meta

It goes like this. Richard Price has written Lush Life, a mystery of the type known in the genre as a "police procedural." Then Sam Anderson wrote a review of said novel in New York magazine which is itself a pastiche of the novel's tone. And finally, a web denizen who goes by "Ricardo5" has … Continue reading So Meta