Archive for January, 2008

Washington Post review: Beautiful Children by Charles Bock

Reviewed by John Burdett
20th January 2008

Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of America’s brittle
and mutating id. This is not the argument of Charles Bock’s exceptional
Beautiful Children, so much as the fact from which he explores the survival
strategies - usually doomed - of the citizen-mutants themselves.

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The Sun Post - John Hood (Bangkok Haunts)

A Higher Pulp

John Burdett Takes the Low Road to Enlightenment

Few crimes make us fear for the evolution of our species. I am watching one right now.

Bangkok Haunts

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