"Packed with elegant aperçus and vibrant with the author's rueful understanding that "Naples the glorious and Naples the ghastly have always been one place.""
From novelist/essayist/editor Taylor (The Book of Getting Even, 2009, etc.), an idiosyncratic, atmospheric portrait of "the great open-air theater of Europe."
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I didn't ask to write about Saul Bellow: Letters so I could mention that I once received a letter from the late Nobel Prize–winning novelist.
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"An intellectual peep show whose ultimate meaning remains elusive."
Taylor's second novel (Tales Out of School, 1995) is an inconsequential story, with considerable pretensions, about a brainy gay Jewish astronomy student, his brainy best friends (twins) and their super-brainy parents.
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