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• Looking Back on 2013

  

  The fact I’m writing my best of 2013 post in late March 2014 shows how much I’ve struggled to find free time lately. That’s had an impact on my reading of... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2014

• By My Faith, Señor Master, Other People’s Troubles Don’t Matter Very Much

  

  Don Quixote, volume two, by Miguel De Cervantes and translated by Edith Grossman If you’ve not read Don Quixote, there’s a few things you probably don’t know... Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2014

• the Town Below Looking as Hell Might with a Good Electrician

  

  My Face for the World to See, by Alfred Hayes In a way murder makes things easy. When someone’s been killed, is going to be killed, it creates instant tension. Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2014

• Fundamentally, This is Political.

  

  Fatale, by Jean-Patrick Manchette and translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith Fatale is under 100 pages long, and that’s including a Jean Echenoz afterword. Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2014

• Stealing a Man’s Wife, That’s Nothing, but Stealing His Car, That’s Larceny.

  

  The Postman Always Rings Twice, by James M. Cain They threw me off the hay truck about noon. Frank Chambers is a drifter with itchy feet who needs a meal. Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2014

• Political Meetings Were Well Attended; They Were Cheaper Than Going to the Movie...

  

  Mr Norris Changes Trains, by Christopher Isherwood Mr Norris Changes Trains was published in 1935. It’s a funny and well observed novel of a Berlin lost in... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2014

• Kerrigan is a Man of Quotes. They Substitute Nicely for Thought.

  

  Kerrigan in Copenhagen, by Thomas E. Kennedy [I'm posting this review before Mr. Norris Changes Trains because I left the Isherwood at work and won't have acces... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2013

• Los Angeles, Give Me Some of You!

  

  Ask the Dust, by John Fante I was a young man, starving and drinking and trying to be a writer. I did most of my reading at the downtown L.A. Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2013

• You Had Such a Vision of the Street / As the Street Hardly Understands;

  

  Prufrock and Other Observations by T.S. Eliot It’s often thought that modernism is difficult, inaccessible, not the sort of thing most readers will enjoy. Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2013

• Dog Ate a Dead Crab

  

  All the Birds, Singing, by Evie Wyld It’s been a while since I’ve been able to properly update the blog – too busy at work. That also means I’m reading... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2013