Slow Match: Dead Dragon

Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Dead Dragon

Kiki and I will be starting with the fourth book in Thomas Harris' Hannibal Lecter series, Hannibal Rising. Back at Iowa, Kiki and I had a long-running discussion about the literary pretensions and merits of Harris's earlier work in the series. I'm showing my hand a bit now, but I've always felt Red Dragon was a legitimate piece of literature. Silence of the Lambs also seemed to rise to this level of ambition and craft.

And then something happened.

Starting 01 January 2007, Kiki and I will dig into Hannibal Rising, and finally bring to a close our long, mutual journey into the abattoir of American popular fiction. Doors open 15 Jan, which maybe gives me enough time to also finish Against the Day and AK-47.

/SG

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Kiki Petrosino said...: I'm just testing to see if the comment function works. New post is coming.; January 4, 2007 at 5:10 PM

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Steve Grant is a writer, filmmaker, and strategic consultant. His feature film The Delicate Art of the Rifle has won numerous awards, and his screenplay Dreamland was selected for the 2005 Sundance Screenwriters’ & Directors’ Labs. As a professional consultant his practice includes consumer ethnography, corporate futurism, and lifestyle trend analysis. Grant holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He lives in Los Angeles.

Kiki Petrosino holds an MA in Humanities from the University of Chicago and an MFA in Creative Writing from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Best New Poets 2006, Unpleasant Event Schedule, POOL, Forklift Ohio, and elsewhere. She lives in Iowa City, where she is a Provost’s Writing Fellow at the University of Iowa.

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Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Dead Dragon

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