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Informationen zum Autor Miles Williamson was named by France's "Transfuge" magazine one of the "douze grands ecrivains du monde"--one of the twelve great authors of the world. His first novel! "East Bay Grease!" was a PEN/Hemingway finalist! and its sequel! "Welcome to Oakland!" was named the second-best novel of 2009 and one of the top 40 novels of the decade by "The Huffington Post." His novel "Two-Up "was named one of the top 100 books of the 2006 by both "The Kansas City Star "and "The San Jose Mercury News." Williamson is Senior Editor of "Boulevard!" Fiction Editor of "Texas Review!" and Associate Editor of "American Book Review. "He has edited "Gulf"" Coast"!" Pleiades" and "Chelsea!" and he was elected to three terms on the Board of Directors of the National Book Critics Circle! serving as Vice President and chairing the Poetry and Criticism committees. Klappentext One of the US's most respected and feared literary critics, Eric Miles Williamson collects here for the first time the essays of his famed and infamous literary column, "Say It Hot”, which ran monthly for two years in the French magazine Transfuge. Rounding out the collection are essays published over a twenty-year span in venues such as The LA Times Book Review, The Houston Chronicle, The San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, and American Book Review.
