Thomas McMullan: How a Chinese wall of shame inspired my novel
Thomas McMullan In my novel, The Last Good Man, an isolated community governs itself by writing on a large wall. Walk up to this structure, looming on the village’s outskirts, and you’ll find notes and missives about piano lessons and lost cats, but you’ll also find accusations plastered in red paint. Geoff Sharpe the butcher has been stealing cuts of meat, a poster might proclaim. Geoff Sharpe has been slacking on the job. And if there are enough accusations about a person, something is done about it; atonement will be sought. This novel has come from a period where questions of pu...
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