In our afternoon reading: recommendations from Sloane Crosley, an interview with Sam Pink, and more.
Review: Daniel Polansky’s “Low Town”
Review by Tobias Carroll Low Town by Daniel Polansky Doubleday; 341 p. Daniel Polansky’s novel Low Town is a violent procedural with an embittered antihero at its center. Daniel Polansky’s novel Low Town is also a fantasy novel, with magicians, supernatural creatures, and metaphysical MacGuffins cropping up at significant moments. The Warden, narrator and protagonist here, is a disgraced ex-cop turned bar owner and informal fixer, the sort of wounded soul one tends to find at the center of noir-tinged […]