A financial analyst meets the Taiwanese crime world
Francie Lin names Greene and Price as inspirations for The Foreigner, her voice-driven crime novel set in Taiwan. It’s keeping me up nights.
Francie Lin names Greene and Price as inspirations for The Foreigner, her voice-driven crime novel set in Taiwan. It’s keeping me up nights.
Read at Work cloaks Tolstoy, Wilde, Twain, and more in an unremarkable windows environment. (Via.)
Jon Krakauer has withdrawn his book on Pat Tillman, the football star felled by friendly fire in Afghanistan. He plans to hold back the manuscript indefinitely.
The 60th anniversary of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” prompts Carrie Frye to offer an appreciation of the author and her We Lived in the Castle (now with Lethem intro).
A reader takes note of my Ferrante fever, and points me to a novel excerpt at Words Without Borders. (Thanks, AHW.)