Don’t you just hate it when you find a book with a cover so awful that you very nearly don’t read it at all? This happened with ‘Boulevard’ – the copy I picked up in the library had a photo of a young man on the front that was so ‘blond brain-dead Eighties porno-flick twink’ [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Jim Grimsley’
September 9, 2008
Review of Jim Grimsley’s ‘Boulevard’
I’m just popping in to say that my latest review, of Jim Grimsley’s New Orleans-set novel ‘Boulevard’, is available in Issue 16 of Forbidden Fruit Magazine.
“Grimsley’s writing is amazing. In any other context this would be called literature; the fact that he’s writing about sleaze doesn’t detract from the elegance and sheer cleverness of his [...]
June 20, 2008
Review accepted
Here’s some good news – I’ve just had my review of Jim Grimsley’s ‘Boulevard’ accepted for the non-fiction section of Forbidden Fruit. The book is a gay ’slice of life’ novel set in 1970s New Orleans, and very interesting for a number of reasons.
The review is due out in August and I’ll post another [...]
