I am the man who will fight for your honour

Sunnyside, Glen David Gold’s second novel, starts off with the type of magic that one might expect to find in his first novel, Carter Beats the Devil.  That is a roundabout and inelegant (did I really just use ‘one’ instead of ‘you’?) way of saying that at the start of the novel, Charlie Chaplin [...]

Talking about books is different than talking about movies. When people ask me about movies, I can say, “I watched The Dark Knight” and they’ll usually know what I’m talking about. Or even if I’m talking about an Indie or foreign film, I can say, “I watched an indie or foreign film” and they’ll realize that I’m a pretentious asshole. I can’t do that with books. There’s not really and indie or foreign book scene that has an identifiable presence for most people. So when talking about books, I usually have to give a quick blurb or plot summary to explain what I’m reading. I’ve generally found that the better the blurb, the better the book.