My Favorite Review Ever, and Other Thoughts on Newspapers

What a great weekend -- the new book got a wonderfully enthusiastic review from the Los Angeles Times, which called it "a stunning work of fiction that is intense, deeply satisfying and always uniquely American." And they compared it to one of my favorite writers, Michael Chabon, in the opening paragraph -- not bad at all.



The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers also got another strong review from the Associated Press. One of the only upsides to the shrinking of newspapers' Book sections acr...