Kevin Wilson collects his favorite lines from the old crime novels restored to print by Hard Case Crime.
A few months ago, I re-posted some of my Texan grandmother’s expressions. Since then, my sister and I have thought of a few more that circulated in our family. Two or three are Granny’s, but more are our mom’s: You sound like a dying cow in a hailstorm. Said to a whining child — i.e.,, when I was a kid, . . .
Recently I swapped recommendations with an editor after some intense book talk. Mine: Rupert Thomson. Hers: Geoff Dyer. Success!
Kafkaesque, Joycean, Nabokovian, and now … Ballardian? Will the prophetic and prolific J.G. Ballard become an adjective? See also.