Les Mots Justes
“Speak! Irene! Wife! Woman! Do not sit in silence and allow the blood that now boils in my...
The Thin Man Goes to the Head
I’ve just been reading Dashiell Hammett’s The Thin Man again and discovered something odd in it. Well, two...
Too Misty
Here’s some outstanding creative writing advice from British novelist Muriel Spark. It’s the opening of her novel Finishing...
Goat Testicles in Other Hands
I got a modest check in the mail this week connected to my book Charlatan: America’s Most Dangerous...
Unsolved
Famous Last Words: “Mrs. Tope’s care has spread a very neat, clean breakfast ready for her lodger. Before...
Fame
I discover I’m mentioned in Adam Gopnik’s latest memoir, At the Stranger’s Gate, when he describes going to...
Ornithology
Not long ago I was grappling unsuccessfully with Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, but I did carry away one...
