Richard Price's new novel Lush Life is the subject of Michiko Kakutani's latest "Book of the Times" article in the New York Times, and she loves it. She loves his dialogue: "No one writes better dialogue than Richard Price — not Elmore Leonard, not David Mamet, not even David Chase."She loves the characters: "He depicts … Continue reading A Belated Valentine?
That’s Really Super, Superman
Michael Chabon has an article in the current issue of The New Yorker on the nature of the superhero costume. (This issue is the Style issue, after all.) Chabon's interest in all things leotard will come as no surprise to readers of his novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, which recounts the adventures … Continue reading That’s Really Super, Superman
Ebook Redux
Not to be outdone, HarperCollins has made all of Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods available online here for the next month. If anything the format is even less conducive to reading than the downloadable PDF of Beautiful Children I told you about earlier.--David E