Each week the New
York Time Book Review picks an author for
a short interview in the feature "By the Book." Amazon informed me that I'm ranked # 3214 in
the mystery category, so I think it's going to be a while until the Times gets
to me.
So herewith, an Interview with
Harley Mazuk, author of White with Fish, Red with Murder, "The Tall Blonde with the Hot
Boiler," and other short fiction.
What book is on your
nightstand now?
The Best American
Short Stories of the Century. I've
been taking a class at Johns Hopkins and we're reading and discussing these—so
far "Zelig" by Benjamin Rosenblatt, "Janus" by Ann Beattie,
"Double Birthday," by Willa Cather, and "The Things They
Carried" by Tim O'Brien. I often
look at the stories in bed, so the book truly is on my nightstand. This week, I'm reading, "That Evening
Sun Go Down," by William Faulkner.
Re-reading it, actually. It's one
of the few Faulkner works I feel comfortable saying, "I understand
that."
To keep a hand in my genre, I'm reading (and sometimes re-reading)
the Collected Short Stories of Raymond Chandler. Last night I was reading "Blackmailers
Don't Shoot," his first story. Had
I been the editor of Black Mask, I don't think I would have bought this
one.
What's on your nightstand now?
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