The Reluctant Book Reviewer: December, that is …

For November read December throughout, oops.

In his first post for us in our dewy days of spring 2018—it was, in fact, our very first review!—Padgett Powell wrote “when I was asked by Book Post to review William Trevor’s last book of stories … I said Yes meaning No, because I do not think a book review serves a man or a woman or a book.”

An auspicious sta…