L.A. EVENT - JOSHUA FERRIS **RECOMMENDED**

Joshua Ferris will be making his L.A. area appearance this evening at Skylight Books (see sidebar for details), and I commend him highly to all my readers.

You can check out this interview in the Huffington Post - and I should say that I share the interviewer's sentiment, that the The Unnamed is a wrenching, harrowing work, and I also share Ferris's incredulity at the one-dimensional reading he's been afforded by too many critics.  (It's rarely a great idea, I think, to take one's critics ...