Sending out the Fall circular for cigar-tin stories today, after a frustrating morning constructing links (and their content), and negotiating with the internet, as it twitched and coughed away. At any rate, this one has a story about a gangster.
One of the great ones. On a very short list. The ultimate American book, about violence and war and death and the pitiless frontier. Is there a more irredeemable character than the Judge? Well, maybe Baron Harkonnen. It's close. But Bloo...
I'm a 46 year-old man who lives in a neighbourhood where people yell at each other on the street. This is a book about an exclusive (or perhaps just expensive) boarding school where the teenage girls act like deranged playwrights for som...