Newsletter #204

Just read the first two pages—the "Sort of Preface" to this 1972 story collection—and see if you can resist going further. That sly confidence, that voice: lively, boastful, affectionate, exasperated!... (Tom)

There's no Waldo in this big book, but it seems like just about everything else has been squeezed into its crowded pages. Wimmelbooks like this ("wimmel" means teeming or swarming) have been huge hits... (Tom)

What happens when you put people with contempt for government in charge of the government? Lewis takes his eye for the untold story into the unglamorous—but, as he demonstrates, desperately necessary—... (Tom)