Are you sick of snobby critics making fun of your favorite science fiction or pulp fiction novelists? Don't despair! The genre book-reviewing world just got a whole lot better.
The Los Angeles Times Books section just contracted two of my favorite literary book reviewers to write about mystery and science fiction. Ed Park, the Believer editor and Philip K. Dick fan, will be writing a science fiction column.
Then, Sarah Weinman, our buddy from Galleycat and Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind, will be writing the paper's crime fiction column.
These writers should be injecting some enthusiasm and deep thoughts to a breed of literary criticism that usually skims the the surface of these wonderful genres. Weinman already opened the whole show over the weekend, these are solid, well-crafted essays. Look for Park next week.
"I will be penning a monthly column on crime fiction, "Dark Passages," for the Los Angeles Times Book Review. It's part of a rotating cycle of web-only columns that include Ed Park on science fiction, Richard Rayner on paperbacks and Sonja Bolle on children's lit. Column number one debuts this weekend along with the revamped book section, and in it I muse on what happens when ghostwriters go solo - and when the reverse takes place."
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