Megan Abbott's Queenpin is a knockout punch. If I had to make a list--and I'm goddamn well fond of lists--it'd be neck-and-neck with Vicki Hendricks's Cruel Poetry for best crime novel of Aught-Seven. The race should get really interesting in the next couple of months, as new books by James Lee Burke, Duane Swierczynski, and Charlie Huston drop (not to mention Dutch Leonard's Up in Honey's Room, which I haven't picked up yet).
In any case, Megan Abbott is reading at Partners and Crime in Greenwich Village at 7 p.m. tonight. Check out www.crimepays.com for more information. Richard Aleas, aka Charles Ardai, is also reading (see www.hardcasecrime.com for more on him). Should be good.
And, in case you're interested, I'm currently listening to Icky Thump by The White Stripes. If it's not a knockout, it'a a hard-fought thirteen round TKO. Yes, it's better than Get Behind Me Satan (which wasn't bad, by the way). And there's a cute picture or two of Meg White in the liner notes.
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Meet the Queenpin
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2 comments:
Cool blog you have here, William.
I bought QUEENPIN two weeks ago, but the way my schedule is running, I probably won't get to read it until late July. It's tough, walking past that book at the top of my TBR pile and not grabbing it.
Thanks, Patrick. I've been enjoying your blog for a while now.
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