A WHILE BACK, WE DID A PODCAST INTERVIEW WITH MISCHA BERLINSKI about his novel Fieldwork.

Now Stephen King, writing in Entertainment Weekly, says that he loves the novel but that the publisher has managed to bury it:

This is a great story. It has an exotic locale, mystery, and a narrative voice full of humor and sadness. Reading Fieldwork is like discovering an unpublished Robertson Davies novel; as with Davies, you can’t stop reading until midnight (good), and you don’t hate yourself in the morning (better). It’s a Russian doll of a read, filled with stories within stories. . . .

Why, why, why would a company publish a book this good and then practically demand that people not read it? Why should this book go to waste?

More thoughts here. It is a good book, and I highly recommend it too.