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A critic wrote of “A Beautiful Crime”: “Bollen writes expansive, psychologically probing novels in the manner of Updike, Eugenides, and Franzen, but he’s an avowed disciple of Agatha Christie.” How does that statement and the assumptions it makes about literature versus crime fiction resonate for you?
Bollen: (Laughing) I discovered Agatha Christie in the fourth grade, and became obsessed with reading her novels, so mysteries were my gateway drug into reading and loving literature.
Author Jennifer Hillier of “Little Secrets”
(Darren Blohowiak)
Hillier: I read a lot of “Sweet Valley High” as a kid, then jumped directly to Stephen King, which were books my mother had lying around the house. King rocked my world, but his books weren’t always digestible; I think I was 11 when I read “Pet Sematary.” I know a lot of writers from my generation who were influenced by King.
COVID Is Not Stopping NYC Downtown Icon Justin Vivian Bond From Putting on Their Annual Holiday Show
Many of us shut in and deprived of parties and live performance this COVID year of our Goddess 2020 have been cheered up by the hilarious “Auntie Glam” videos that beloved transgender performer Justin Vivian Bond (formerly of the legendary duo Kiki & Herb) has been posting throughout the year from their historic “House of Whimsy” in upstate New York. In true over-the-top, Rosalind-Russell-in-
Auntie Mame fashion, Bond, in an enormous Marilyn Monroe wig and red-rimmed glasses, waxes philosophical about all matters COVID and political, often while giving viewers a madcap tutorial in making a new cocktail.