A Postmodern Triumph: Russ Litten’s Swear Down
Unreliable narrators, fractured storylines, subversion and dislocation; crime writer Nick Triplow deconstructs our Book Club pick, Russ Litten’s Swear Down.
Dead Ends Thrown Wide Open: The Crying of Lot 49
For our Mystery theme, Thomas Chadwick revisits a postmodern mystery in which the clues seem infinite and everything may mean everything … or nothing. First published in 1965, Thomas Pynchon’s ...