![]() They are free to love, to hate, to go to work, and do all the things that people do, except worry. They might have sexual relationships with one another, they might fall in and out of love with each other, they might have conflicts with each other, power struggles, or squabbles over resources. The characters in these TV shows, despite the derisive cackles of the maddening crowd that hangs in the luminiferous ether between them, do not have to worry. Bruno Littlemore just got better and better, carrying the reader to a symphonic conclusion.īut along the way, Hale takes on sitcoms, ![]() But, let's be honest: he didn't always know how to end them. ![]() Saramago rode great ideas to a Nobel (although he must have run out about the time he wrote The Double, stealing it from Dostoevsky and just removing the quotation marks and punctuation). (And yes, I'm talking about you, Kevin Brockmeier). So often, though, the author can't sustain it. I've read many books based on great ideas. Now, restart with a great idea: a chimpanzee who learns to speak, who evolves in starts and fits into Man. No, to start: That is the greatest cover for a book, ever. Hale, a literary Incubus, seduces with timelessly crafted sentences on every page. What a debut! He knows his Shakespeare and has captured his rhythm. ![]() Benjamin Hale is scary smart and as good a writer as it is legal to be. ![]()
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