Great Regulars: [Elmore] Leonard would probably think

the comparison pretentious, but the way in which the voices of the characters and the threads of narrative are introduced and interwoven reminds one of nothing so much as a well-crafted fugue with its subject, countersubject, episodes, false entries, and stretto (where everything can seem to be happening at once).

from Frank Wilson: The Philadelphia Inquirer: The keen-eyed storyteller spins another tall one

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Of course, as D.H. Lawrence pointed out in the last book he wrote, Apocalypse, those who warn of apocalypse secretly crave it, the way puritans tend to be turned on by the very vices they so loudly denounce.

The Road is just the latest installment in the pornography of despair.

from Frank Wilson: The Philadelphia Inquirer: Slogging through best-sellerdom

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