DOCTOR SALT by Gerard Donovan (Scibner); THE CONTORTIONIST’S HANDBOOK by Craig Clevenger (4th Estate)
Listener – June 11, 2005
A couple of weeks before I read Gerard Donovan’s second novel, Doctor Salt, and Craig Clevenger’s brilliant debut novel, The Contortionist’s Handbook, a writer friend, who has an encyclopedic knowledge of pharmacology, told me that the guy who concocted the drug Ecstasy originally called it Empathy.… More,,,