In Ana Castillo's novel Watercolor Women/Opaque Men, the life of a Chicana single mom could be verse. It could also be better. Read More at The Washington Post »
Writing
“Discovering Sherlock Holmes in Weekly Installments, Just as It Was Intended”
The game's afoot (again). Thanks to Stanford's "Discovering Sherlock Holmes" project, readers can sign up to receive several Sherlock Holmes stories in weekly installments that are facsimilies of the original Strand magazine versions. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription only) »
Sotheby’s: The Inside Story by Peter Watson
What happens when bad people sell good art. Read More at Salon »
“Love on the Run”
A review of Ash Wednesday by Ethan Hawke. Yeah," that Ethan Hawke. Not as lousy a novelist as you think he is." Read More at The Washington Post »
Situationist Noir
Two French "neo-polars" by Jean-Patrick Manchette take the thriller genre apart, with the help of Guy Debord and West Coast jazz. Read More at Boston Review »
