What’s Going On: A High-Wire Act
I had the pleasure of meeting James Grady, author of Mad Dogs (and, of course, Six Days of the Condor) at the Montana Festival of the Book a couple of months ago. Somehow it had escaped my attention that Grady is a fellow native Montanan! He read from his recently serialized novella, “What’s Going On: A Political Fiction in Nine Episodes,” and really blew the room away. I read the whole thing later, of course–you should, too. That is, if you like The Wire, the novels of Richard Price, and politically astute fiction in general.
“What’s Going On” is a day in the life of a besieged man who holds the oft-maligned position of community organizer. It’s a good thing for you that the whole thing has already been published, so you won’t have to wait a day for each new installment. You won’t want to wait.