A Year in Reading: Adam O’Fallon Price
The best thing I read this year was ’s , and specifically the first page of ’s (fictional) author’s foreword. The book features, among other things, a tour-de-force, throat-clearing beginning with a (fictional) publisher’s foreword, followed by the foreword in question, and then the actual or “actual” novel itself, a desultory beast that meanders for about 200 to 300 hundred pages before the real problem is presented. But the first page
