There was some industry talk at the lunch Grote’s wife, novelist Lorraine Martindale, talked about her past life as a New York editor. 9, critic and novelist Charles Finch binges on the Beatles and reaches a turning point. In an entry from his COVID-19 diary “What Just Happened,” out Nov. Since arriving in Silver Lake from the Bay Area in 2012, Maran has turned her guesthouse into “casita artista,” a micro-Yaddo for visiting (or relocating) writers, including Joey Soloway, Michael Chabon and Kate Christensen.īooks How John, Paul, George and Ringo helped a writer survive the pandemic “Nearly half of us met at Yaddo,” said Meredith Maran, author of several memoirs, referring to the storied writers’ colony in upstate New York, where she and Finch, along with Specktor and Jason Grote, a playwright now developing films and video games, spent a pre-pandemic season. But what connects them is their original passion, books.
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Cha couldn’t make it to Louise’s because she was working on a TV show, a side gig shared by several of the nine writers assembled, including memoirist-screenwriter Dan Marshall (“Home Is Burning”).
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This particular lunch was the first post-pandemic outing of a series organized by local author Steph Cha (“ Your House Will Pay”) and more recent arrival Charles Finch (the Charles Lenox mysteries). Specktor, most recently the author of the memoir “Always Crashing in the Same Car,” soon high-tailed it back to L.A., a scene brimming with transplants from colder climes - and bolstered by writers who fight traffic and inertia to find each other. This isn’t anything this is just two people with bad opinions!’” “And I’m sitting there, and there’s lots of cocaine, and there’s arguing about Martin Amis, and I’m just thinking, ‘I’ve just got to go home, man. “I remember a night in the ‘90s when I was out with two very, very, very famous writers,” he said.
Matthew Specktor grew up in Los Angeles, but like many of the writers gathered for lunch at Louise’s Trattoria on North Larchmont on a recent Tuesday, he spent formative years in New York having meals of a different tenor. Please let me know what I'm doing wrong, since I have remedial goodreads skills.This story is part of Lit City, our comprehensive guide to the literary geography of Los Angeles. You can find me on Facebook ( /charlesfinchauthor) where my reader are always giving fantastic book reviews, or Twitter ( /charlesfinch) which I don't like quite as much, though it's okay. I spend most of my time here writing, reading, walking my dog, and trying not to let my ears freeze off. Some of my favorite writers: George Orwell, Henry Green, Dick Francis, Anthony Trollope, David Lodge, PG Wodehouse, Bill Bryson, Roberto Bolano, Jonathan Franzen, Shirley Hazzard, Leo Tolstoy, AR Ammons, Philip Larkin, Edgar Bowers, Laurent Binet, Laurie Colwin, Jane Austen, Arthur Conan Doyle, Philip Roth, Henrik Ibsen, Geoff Dyer, the list could go forever.Ī bit about myself: I was born in New York City, and since then I've lived all over the place, in America, England, France.at the moment I'm in Chicago, where I just recently moved. My taste is all over the place, though I tend to really like literary and mystery fiction. Like most people on this website, I'm a huge reader. I also write book reviews for the New York Times, USA Today, and the Chicago Tribune and essays in many different places. My name is Charles Finch - welcome! I'm the author of the Charles Lenox series of historical mysteries, as well as a recent novel about expatriate life in Oxford, THE LAST ENCHANTMENTS. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads' database with this name. What could the September Society have to do with it? What specter, returned from the past, is haunting gentle Oxford? Lenox, with the support of his devoted friends in London’s upper crust, must race to discover the truth before it comes searching for him, and dangerously close to home.
Then, just as Lenox realizes that the case may be deeper than it appears, a student dies, the victim of foul play. When Lenox visits his alma mater to investigate, he discovers a series of bizarre clues, including a murdered cat and a card cryptically referring to the September Society.
Lady Annabelle’s problem is simple: her beloved son, George, has vanished from his room at the University of Oxford. In the small hours of the morning one fall day in 1866, a frantic widow visits detective Charles Lenox. He saw several small artifacts of the missing student’s life-a frayed piece of string about two feet long of the sort you might bind a package with, half of a pulpy fried tomato, which was too far from the breakfast table to have been dropped, a fountain pen, and lastly, a card which said on the front 'The September Society.' "The sitting room looked as familiar as the back of his hand, and immediately Lenox took a liking to the young man who inhabited it. Let's start with a quote from this exciting novel.