New York Magazine's The Best Novels You've Never Read

New York magazine put out a call for critics to submit their favorite novels and authors that they believed had been unfairly overlooked. I responded with George Pelecanos.

I don't remember exactly what I wrote (had I known it would make the magazine, I probably would have worked harder on it), but here's my annotation they used:

"Few authors can write about race and the urban landscape with his nuance and insight—and nobody else can do it while telling such a damn good story."

Pelecanos is hardly an unknown writer, but given how good he is, he should be a much bigger name.

Comments

[Marcus Sakey]

Amen on that one.

[Deborah]

I think the quote sounds great!