Friday Feast: The Appeal of Depressing Books, How to Know If Your Writing Is Any Good, Southern Summer Reading Round-Up, Where Books Are All but Non-Existent, and How Historical Fiction Does What Textbooks Cannot
Like the author of our first link, Pamela Erens, I’m drawn to depressing books. The darker the better. I can tolerate a happily ever after story, but only after the characters have suffered great trauma to get to the rainbows on…