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
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Soldier Boys
The Los Angeles Times' book blog has a brief post on what's to be found on the lending library shelves of American military bases in Iraq.--David E
Mumbai Doesn’t Believe in Tears*
I've got India on the brain. I'm reading Vikram Chandra's Bombay gangster saga Sacred Games, and I love it. So news that another Indian novel with the (to me) puzzling title One Night at the Call Center will soon be made into a Bollywood musical caught my eye.Is this novel the stuff of a singing … Continue reading Mumbai Doesn’t Believe in Tears*