Daniel’s Reviews > Inward Journey: Reflections on Ross Macdonald > Status Update

I'd never heard of Gilbert Sorrentino, but I'm gonna need to reread that piece. I don't think I entirely understood it.

The Robert B Parker piece is barely a page. Just like a chapter in one of his novels. ;) The Richard Layman piece was very good. One of the best in a while. I'd been starting to think they'd frontloaded all the good stuff.

Jerome Charyn making it about himself. <.<

some cool writing tidbits in the kenner piece. the symons piece is good, but nothing stood out in it.

The Robert Easton piece was good. (Only the first two pieces here are by Macdonald, the rest of the book is various people writing about him.)

First piece is a transcription of a recorded lecture and were this book not printed in 1984 I'd blame some kind of computer error for "Certain writers of the cloaca-and-dagger school" on page 14 and wonder how that got by the editor. Then again, Macdonald was a birdwatcher...