Novel by Zadie Smith, 2003 I’m a big fan of Zadie Smith, but I don’t get this book at all. It’s about the fairly pathetic life of a man who deals in autographs of celebrities, mostly movie stars. But I think now I’ve read all her novels; this is the one I liked least.
Monthly Archives: August 2019
A Dangerous Man
Novel by Robert Crais, 2019 I like to read “junk books” like this. Crais’ protagonists are Elvis Cole, a private investigator and his friend, Joe Pike, a sometime mercenary and compassionate tough guy. I like Crais and Connelly because their books are well crafted, have good characters and plots, and are set in Los Angeles. …
Bright Lights, Big City
Novel by Jay McInerney, 1984 Is this book an anachronism? The Amazon blurb said it was a sensation when it was first published in 1984. It’s about a young man, working as a fact checker at a New York publication very similar to to the New Yorker. He’s fairly unsympathetic. He’s one of those writers …