Book reviews reimagined as letters to authors, connecting the tools of criticism to the very human reasons we read: for pleasure, for connection, for a wider view on the world.
There is still so much gesture in Los Angeles, so much movement, so much of the divine that you could have written a hundred more books about the grotesque and the holy here.
Stories-within-stories is a classic Middle Eastern format with roots much deeper than The Arabian Nights. Your book marries these traditions and implodes them.