Rhodes’ latest ignored Stateside?
A Dan Rhodes interview at Bookslut is the first inkling I’ve had that Gold is out here. Did anyone other than PW review it?
A Dan Rhodes interview at Bookslut is the first inkling I’ve had that Gold is out here. Did anyone other than PW review it?
At a book party last night I witnessed what I’m tempted to call the New York media version of an Abbott and Costello routine — except it was an actual conversation, and I was a participant. Here’s how it went. Critic: [Upon introduction.] Maud Newton… Wasn’t there a novel called that this year? Me: I don’t think so. Critic: . . .
Allan Gurganus says the first chapter of Housekeeping contains “enough dramatic incident to stock any three other novels.”
It amuses me to picture Roland Barthes drunk-dialing Robbe-Grillet at midnight to say, “But Alain, I’m a fake, aren’t I?”