Author: James Morrow
Twice the winner of the World Fantasy Award, James Morrow is the author of satiric novels including Only Begotten Daughter (a sequel to the New Testament), Towing Jehovah (a Nietzschean sea saga of ideas), and Blameless in Abaddon (a modern-dress retelling of the Book of Job), all currently available in paperback editions from Harcourt.
Knocking Our Cosmic Socks Off
Behold, He Said, by Tom Flynn (Double Dragon Publishing, 2018, ISBN 9781790470907) 778 pp., Hardcover, $27.99. I hesitate to accord Tom Flynn’s deliriously erudite oeuvre the familiar label “cult books,” since cults are among the many human follies this witty and adroit novelist takes to task. In any event, the coterie of discerning fans who …
Nothing Sacred
Nothing Sacred, by Tom Flynn (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2004, ISBN 1-59102-127-8) 474 pp. Paper $20. When cubism, expressionism, and geometric abstraction emerged as the styles commanding serious critical attention within the art world, lowly magazine illustrators and bookjacket artists unexpectedly found themselves the guardians of representation. Once it became apparent that, thanks to the …