The Feb. 5 issue of The New Yorker has a two-page review of
Michael Connelly's "A Darkness More then Night" by Joyce
Carol Oates. She places the book in the context of
contemporary fiction about L.A. and a genre that spans
fiction and true crime, which she terms "crime"
writing.
"The most talent of crime writers work, like Michael
Connelly, with genre formulas as poets work with 'fixed' yet
malleable forms like sonnets and sestinas; they put their
signatures on the archetype."
Worth reading (the review, and, of course, the book).
--Karen Seattle, WA
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