There’s a rather excellent critical essay about Curtis Smith’s Sound + Noise, which is being released in September, at Prick of the Spindle.
In other news, Friday’s e-mail from Dad (who’s taken over doing a lot of the link gathering and other web-based stuff): “In other news, slack US paperback sales are attributed to a lack of romances. I infer that every book of yours is a romance (with the dead, with death…)”
He has always had a strange sense of humor, but he’s sort of right. Let’s see how this would play out.
- Mouth of the Lion is a romance with the dead, death, addiction, mental illness, and family–roughly in that order.
- Adagio is actually a romance, but not only a romance between the two protagonists, it’s also a romance with Australia.
- Motor City Blues is a romance with the city of Detroit.
- The Tea House is a romance with ghost stories and the dead.
- Mind Fuck does actually have a romance running through it, in a very twisted and wrong way.
- Without Wax is a romance with the adult entertainment industry.
- End Credits is a romance with the absurd.
- Quid Pro Quo, the sequel to Mind Fuck, continues that thread of very wrong and twisted romance between its protagonists.
- Sound + Noise, again, is actually a romance.
In yet more absurd news, I did not check the premiership fixtures table on the ESPN website to plan Tenant B and my football schedule for the fall. Not at all.