Though my pro wrestling fandom has waned, I was excited to see several recent works of fiction that leverage the narrative power of the sport: the colorful archetypes and illusions of professional wrestling or the elemental combat of “real” wrestling.
Millions staffer Adam O'Fallon Price's novel The Hotel Neversink rose two spots in our Top Ten, and now ranks higher than Margaret Atwood's The Testaments.
Smith’s lines will hypnotize you, but also wake you, as in: “i’m waiting for a few folks // i love dearly to die so i can be myself. / please don’t make me say who.”
This list of must-read crime titles forms part of a lesser-known West, an awesomely weird landscape in which the line between Good and Evil shimmers like a mirage.