I have been staring at a blank screen for fifteen minutes, not knowing how to start writing about Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt. I loved deWitt’s The Sisters Brothers, a fabulous western with a riveting…
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The Sisters Brothers
It’s 1851, and Charlie and Eli Sisters work for the Commodore, a corrupt leader who orders them to kill people who get in his way. The Commodore tells them to go to California to kill…
The Sisters Brothers
At some point you must have had an uncle, probably not related by blood, whose conversational ticks you struggled to understand until finally you cocked your head and realized “Oh, wait. You’re funny! You are…
You love Irish Whiskey and you abuse aspirin
There are a few things that make me leery when reading a debut novel: 1) When one of the blurbs is by someone who is listed in the acknowledgments (Well that was nice of your…