Read This: No Sleep Till Wonderland

It was nearly a year ago that I met Paul Tremblay as he came to the Center for Fiction to read from his debut novel, The Little Sleep. Well, he’s back, and so is narcoleptic private eye Mark Genevich, with No Sleep Till Wonderland. I’ll confess, I’m still working my way through this one, but only because this full-time work thing means I can’t devote myself to reading novels in single sittings the way I could last year—it’s not like I want to not be reading this novel, dammit.

Now, if you’re in New York City, you have another chance to meet Paul tonight; he’ll be reading at The Mysterious Bookshop (58 Warren Street) at 6:30 p.m. I’m going to try to get this project finished well ahead of deadline in order to make it, but even if I don’t, if you’re a hardboiled mystery fan with a bent sense of humor, and you haven’t discovered Tremblay yet, you really ought to check him out. And if you did discover him last year, you know exactly what I mean.

9 February 2010 | read this |