Thursday, February 14, 2019

THE BEAT GOES ON

Ian Rankin. The BEAT GOES ON: THE COMPLETE REBUS SHORT STORIES. Orion, 2014.

I still love Rebus. I always enjoy short story collections. One or two of these were familiar from earlier editions. I especially enjoyed Rankin's essay at the end about the origins of Rebus which also includes a sort of "portrait of the writer as a young man" and the realization for the writer that the city itself is an important character.


THE REINVENTION OF LOVE

 Helen Humphreys. T he REINVENTION of LOVE. HarperCollins, 2011.  A young writer and reviewer, Sainte-Beuve, has an affair with Victor Hugo...