Tindal Street 10
There are stories with the scope of novels. There are characters you wonder about after having finished the story. There are distinctive voices. The sentences have been worked on until they shine. And, as Catherine O’Flynn points out in her introduction, there is very little autobiography or pseudo-autobiography here. Although the authors are of similar ages and of similar backgrounds, their characters and locations vary wildly. These writers have charged out into the world and written what they saw in it.
Max Dunbar on Tindal Street‘s Roads Ahead.
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Today’s quick lit [& alt.cult] links from around the web: “Imagine a Stephen King book that costs just over $90,000. Then try to grasp the fact that around $85,000 of that total is accounted for by the dust jacket alone.” & The Cult interview James Ellroy & ‘Right & Wrong Political Uses of Literature’ by […]