Status Updates From The Late Lamented (The Ed &...

Pretty good. I’m somehow programmed to think that everything I’ve got left to read by Brown - in terms of the novels - will be sub-par, or even suck. That has to do with the rep of his later work, Seabrook the biographer’s remarks, and just generally what stayed out of print while other books came back. But, the deep cuts are turning out to be decent; the old “his bad books better than others’ good ones” situation.

This will be the only novel by a male author I read this September. All other full-length fiction will be written by women, as will my single nonfiction pick. Short stories in between novels can be by anyone, and I will be dipping into chapters of The Life of Crime, by Martin Edwards, every now and then. I wish I had more Horror novels by women for Sept., but I have enough for every third pick or so.