For a first novel, Nathaniel Rich's The Mayor's Tongue makes for a good read. But even though he's "not yet 30," he is a senior editor at The Paris Review (and the author of San Francisco Noir), and so you do expect him not to offer you some rewarmed Roth in the first place. He's down at Elliott Bay Book Company on Monday night, April 21st, giving the usual free reading/Q&A and not fielding questions about what it's like having Frank Rich as a father.
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