Riddley Walker Time

It's strange how a book can irrevocably change one's world.

I was a year out of college when I read Russell Hoban's Riddley Walker . I was working in a college library, and I'd gone through a long, unhappy spat of reading "the classics," then a moderately less unhappy period of reading Margaret Atwood and Joyce Carol Oates and then, abruptly, I decided to read some sci-fi. I picked up A Canticle for Leibowitz first. Dusty and strange, I enjoyed the narrative–who doesn't love post-apocalyptic m...