Why Do American Women Slaver All Over the English Writers Who Hate Us?

First, two short poems:

The Melrose novels
are a masterwork
for the twenty-first century, written by
one of the gre-
at prose stylists in England.

— Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones

Extraordinary. . .
Aci
dic
humor,
stiletto-sharp.

— Francine Prose

What kabuki!

I wanted to write here about Englishmen— the literary ones like Edward St. Aubyn, the pursed, small…