Sometimes I talk about Led Zeppelin and The Velvet Underground in the way of how a single of their song might account for the entire catalog of a later band. How someone might have heard the song “No Quarter” and 25 years later we have Tool. It’s not exactly true, but it makes a kind of sense to me. Here we have a novel that feels like it launched a 1000 contemporary careers from Richard Yates to Rachel Kushner to Jennifer Egan to John Updike […]