6/27/2023 0 Comments Goliath tochi![]() ![]() Inasmuch as it has a plot, it’s about the re-gentrification of New Haven. Tochi Onyebuchi is far too interesting and thoughtful a writer to have achieved his final form with his fifth novel, but I do get the sense that the success of his most recent novella, Riot Baby, and his continuing development as a writer bought him the leeway he needed to write his wonderful, genre-crossing new novel, Goliath. Even if the thing they become doesn’t quite align with my tastes and I have to hop off the train, it’s still a very cool process to witness a writer achieving their final form. Ideally, with supportive agents and editors, and the sales to support it (sob, capitalism is a hellscape), writers go through their careers becoming more and more like themselves, writing books that are more and more the exact thing they want to write. ![]() This is fun because when they hit it big, I get to be a hipster about it (in a few years I’m going to be a nightmare about Micaiah Johnson and y’all will all be tired of me), but it’s also fun because I get to see their development as writers. When I feel a bit sad about my reading/blogging focus having shifted to focus so heavily on recent releases, I comfort myself with a reminder that reading recent releases gets me in on the ground floor of new authors. ![]()
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