(Continued from Monday afternoon's "Con Vocation" link.)
From The Harvard Crimson this morning —
"David Black, author and scholar-in-residence
at Kirkland House, entertained a small group
of attendees with a reading of his latest novel
Fast Shuffle Monday evening in Kirkland’s
Senior Common Room."
From a Kirkus Reviews review of Fast Shuffle last July —
" 'My heritage is of Jewish socialists on one side,'
Black explains, 'and of Jewish gangsters on the
other side. My great aunt was Polly Adler [the
(in)famous Manhattan madam of the '20s, '30s
and early '40s whose girls entertained some of
the guys from the Algonquin roundtable]. It's a
mix of idealism and gritty practicality. I delight
in both.' "
Non-entertainment from the publication date of Fast Shuffle :
