Memo

As you know, I've been busy with the promotional work for my book (and will be more busy with this sort of thing soon, because February sees the release of the film-essay anthology I've edited for Westland). This means I haven't had much time for other writing apart from my regular columns, but I will soon put up reviews of some books I've enjoyed in the past month or so. Among them: the James Ellroy-edited anthology The Best American Noir of the Century, Pallavi Aiyar's Chinese Whiskers, and Zac O'Yeah's Once Upon a Time in Scandinavistan. (The number of books on the To Be Read list is, as always, several hundred times larger.) Watch this space.