Crime Fiction Report
Megan Abbott’s QUEENPIN got a nice write up in the Chicago Tribune, a mention at Collected Miscellany and a long review from James R. Winter at January Magazine while RN Morris got some ink from the Philly Inquirer for THE GENTLE AXE. Both Megan and Roger are contributors to the Rap Sheet. Megan wrote THE SONG IS YOU while Roger debuted with Macmillan New Writing the UK imprint thought by some to be the end of civilization as we know it. Update: this hasn’t proven to be true although Scooter disagrees.
Megan and Roger have an open invitation to visit Wellington Leg and take a walk up the famous Boulevard of the Stars.
What Wellington Leg is reading: Kjell Eriksson’s THE CRUEL STARS OF THE NIGHT. Recommended by publicist-philosopher Lars Kierkegaard who enjoys the multi-layered gloom of Uppsala in fall. Lars is still contemplating his failure to launch the earl’s career. “We ponder,” he said. “We replace headgaskets.” A headgasket shortage still plagues the Leg even in this day and age.
Marge, the afternoon cashier, is reading Peter Spiegelman’s BLACK MAPS, now out in paper. Marge recommends NIGHT FALLS ON DAMASCUS by Frederick Highland and Alex Carr’s AN ACCIDENTAL AMERICAN.
Eddie of Book Nook fame is proofing WELLINGTON LEG CONFIDENTIAL short story collection about crime and corruption here in the Leg. “Hizzoner is sweating bullets while we edit the stories,” Eddie said. A box of Cuban cigars and a Roger Clemens autograph set progress back in May. “I was bought off,” Eddie says.
THE EARL’S BEHEADING is now in treatment form says Wilfredo Tagesblatt, VP of Development. “We’re working with Trump’s people,” he confided. The goal is to have the earl beheaded in Prime Time probably in Atlantic City. Wicker baskets are needed, so if you have any write to REALITY, care of Wellington Leg. Bobby G reporting from a dark desert highway cool wind in his hair.