Not So Thrilled

Critic-blogger Sarah Weinman has started posting the results of a roundtable discussion she had recently with several other U.S. book reviewers (including Rap Sheet contributor Dick Adler) about Patrick Anderson’s new non-fiction work, The Triumph of the Thriller: How Cops, Crooks, and Cannibals Captured Popular Fiction. The first installment covers Anderson’s definition of thrillers and his too-short treatment of the subject.