Soul Kitchen, the latest installment in the story of Rickey and Gman, by Poppy Z Brite… What to say, what to say? It was good, better than Prime but not as good as Liquor. I was afraid there would be too much “politics” in there particularly early in the book when I saw this, “MR CONGRESSMAN. MR PRESIDENT. PEOPLE OF THE USA. HERE R YOUR SHRIMP WHERE R OUR LEVEES”. But nope, if Poppy went back and edited after the hurricane, she didn’t destroy the book in doing so because that was the only mention of levees and there was no heavy political (or social) message going on. (She finished it right before the hurricane, by the way.)
If she keeps this up, she’s going to have a whole generation of readers who don’t know she was a horror writer. I’m not sure that’s completely good but it does say something positive about her as a writer, doesn’t it?
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