The Suburbs Made the War on Drugs in Their Own Image
Matthew Lassiter’s history plays out in ranch houses, high school parking lots, and courtrooms from Shaker Heights to Westchester to Orange County.
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Matthew Lassiter’s history plays out in ranch houses, high school parking lots, and courtrooms from Shaker Heights to Westchester to Orange County.
TITLE: “A Life in School: What the Teacher Learned”
I met Tom Lin at the Napa Valley Writers Conference this summer, where we spoke about our debut books. His debut novel, The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu, about a Chinese orphan raised by a white man to become an assassin in the post-Civil war western United States, won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction. Having thoroughly enjoyed our panel and the book itself, I asked him if we might talkabout the book, about the genre of the Western, and also, about the fiction writing process in general.
From the blog of Brent Chaim Spodek at The Times of Israel