By page 300 of Hideo Yokoyama's novel Six Four, I was getting weary. "Where's the editor?" I kept thinking. "Didn't someone have the courage to tell this guy his story isn't working? The questions of a book critic and a manuscript editor are sometimes the same ones. It was true as I prepared my review … Continue reading Would cutting 400 pages make it a better book?
Category: Los Angeles Review of Books
Do you create filler or something more?
Some essential reading for you: The opening section of a review of Alejandro Jodorowsky's novel Where the Bird Sings Best in the Los Angeles Review of Books is a writer's call to action. Call of the Siren does its best in various posts to ask you to consider the questions, Why do I write? … Continue reading Do you create filler or something more?
Chronicle of a death retold
I thought my old employer might ask me to review for them, but the Los Angeles Review of Books beat them to it ... and I couldn't be happier. I had a chance to really stretch out in the LARB in a review of Barry Strauss' retelling of the greatest assassination of the Roman … Continue reading Chronicle of a death retold
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