Pete Dexter is one of those brilliant authors who seems to get ignored. After Paris Trout, which was made into a film, his wonderful novels, often bleak, sometimes comedic, disappeared fast and rarely made their way to Australia. His new outing, Spooner, is released later this month.
What’s more, I’ll also put on my list his collection of newspaper columns, a book with an amazingly long subtitle: Paper Trails: True Stories of Confusion, Mindless Violence, and Forbidden Desires, a Surprising Number of Which Are Not About Marriage.