“Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip.” So reads the 10th of “10 Rules of Writing” (2007) by Elmore Leonard (1925-2013), the New Orleans-born, Detroit-raised, Hollywood-savvy author who ...
He’s been referred to by the rather unwieldy sobriquet of “The Master of Contemporary American Crime Fiction.” And many critics and readers have agreed that he’s a worthy heir to the hardboiled ...
“In 1900,” explains novelist and essayist Dasgupta (Capital) in this brilliant study, “only about 25 per cent of the world’s population lived in a recognizably ‘national’ Continue reading » Sex and ...