Her entry begins:Momento Mori by Muriel Spark
There’s a lot of buzz about Muriel Spark right now. Her biography, by Martin Stannard, has just come out and that’s what turned me on to her—I caught a review of it in the New York Times.
Once I learned a bit about Ms. Spark—she was imperious, tempestuous, brilliant, a documented speed-freak and a purported lesbian—I had to read her.
I went to a local bookstore intending to buy The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Instead, I came away with Momento Mori. Two reasons: The Tennessee Williams endorsement on the cover. And the book’s subject.
It’s about a set of aged, 1950s British aristocrats being terrorized by an anonymous phone caller who keeps reminding them that they must die.
How germane, I thought, in this time when...[read on]
Cynthia Robinson lives in San Francisco, where she works as a part-time advertising shill, and a full-time raconteur.Her novel The Dog Park Club is a noir comedy. It’s the first installment in a series about the reluctant adventures of Max Bravo—an opera singer whose real life adventures are even more dramatic than his stage roles. The sequel, The Barbary Galahad, is coming in 2011.
Read an excerpt from The Dog Park Club, and learn more about the book and author at Cynthia Robinson's website.
Writers Read: Cynthia Robinson.
--Marshal Zeringue
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