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Overhyped novel 'City on Fire' is a steaming pile of literary dung by Elisabeth Vincentelli

On Thanksgiving eve, let's congratulate the lucky idiot who paid $2 million for the biggest turkey of them all. That would be the editor who fought off a dozen similarly deluded rivals for Garth Risk Hallberg's 911-page novel, "City on Fire." That tidy sum " reportedly the highest amount ever paid for a debut novel...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 8:00pm on November 25, 2015 ☆ ⚑

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