By Nightfall
A Novel

The best book I’ve read since Mario Vargas Llosa’s “The Feast of the Goat.” Really? 2 genuine masterpieces within one month? Karma is doing me a favor; Fortuna’s Wheel, in my case, travels heavenward... Wow. “By Nightfall.” Golly wow. I had very much forgotten about Cunningham, though I list him as m......more

As subject matter for a novel the midlife crisis of an affluent New York art dealer doesn't inspire much excitement. And I'm afraid I found nothing in this novel to get excited about. Perhaps it's only interesting feature was the disparity between what our narrator says in public and what he thinks......more

Here’s the thing about midlife crises: they suck!! I mean, I’ve done pretty well during my childhood crisis, my teenage years crisis, my mid-twenties crisis and even my mid-thirties crisis felt like a breeze when compared to this midlife crisis. The problem about midlife crises, is that by the time......more

Elegant, sexy, achingly familiar to the point that I had to put it down and say: He knows me. Is that really me? What's it about? It's about how when you're young you long for and fear life at the same moment; when you're not young you regard the young, as happens here, and long for life and fear tha......more