I have no idea how I ended up reading this book — I think it might have been recommended to me on GoodReads — but I didn’t know anything about it at the outset, except the title and the book jacket cover, which for some reason gave me the impression that it would be a quirky little murder mystery set in a bookstore. Like Black Books, with murrrrrder. That is not what this is. It is a murder mystery, but there is nothing quirky about […]
Before He Was a Showrunner, He Was a Novelist
I love Noah Hawley, the showrunner, who has created two great seasons of Fargo and one decent season; a bizarre but fascinating season of Legion; and an under-appreciated season of The Unusuals. With his television work, however, Hawley has always worked in the confines of another property, whether it’s the framework of Fargo, the characters of Legion, or the constricts of a network police procedural in The Unusuals. I was deeply curious as to who Hawley is in his natural state: What kind of yarn […]