"Novel Explosives" is a big burning turning ferris wheel of a book with many colorful capsules of expertise and pods of excess. It is violent and profound, taunting, outraged. It is arrogantly discursive yet can possess the focused intensity of a knife’s tip.
Here is a story for you, dear readers! Joy Williams found this book via a little ad in Harper's, with ringing endorsements from Michael Silverblatt, host of San Francisco's long-running author-interview show "Bookworm," and William Gaddis afficionado Steven Moore. She ordered it, loved it, and asked to write about it. So... the road to readers is long and winding.
Here is a story for you, dear readers! Joy Williams found this book via a little ad in Harper's, with ringing endorsements from Michael Silverblatt, host of San Francisco's long-running author-interview show "Bookworm," and William Gaddis afficionado Steven Moore. She ordered it, loved it, and asked to write about it. So... the road to readers is long and winding.