![]() Who else, for example, pays such close attention to the way we never, ever finish our sentences? “‘Man, why you gotta be all…I just ahks a question, that’s all, and you gotta be all…’ Here Levi provided an inconclusive mime that gave no idea of the missing word.”įade to Blonde, by Max Phillips, is a brilliant homage to (and parody of) the noir tradition. It might seem superfluous to add another word of praise for Zadie Smith’s On Beauty, except that it’s impossible to praise her enough for how well she listens. If the world of MFA programs moved O’Connor off the pedestal and replaced her with McCullers, it would be a good thing for the future of American literature. More than fifty years old, this short novel is the liveliest thing I’ve read in years. Her humor can remind you of Ring Lardner her fondness for Southern grotesques can remind you of Flannery O’Connor and her mordant reflections on the difficulty of love can remind you of Proust – but really, there was nobody like her, ever. ![]() ![]() Brian Morton’s novels include Starting Out in the Evening and Breakable You.Ĭarson McCullers, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe. ![]()
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