![]() ![]() Many of you are now rubbing your hands in unholy glee at the premise, and Dade delivers and then some. ![]() ![]() The pair have only just met in real life, but they’ve unknowingly been online best friends for years under their pseudonyms on a fanfic server. He’s asked a fan - a keen-eyed geologist named April - to dinner as a publicity stunt, after pictures of her character cosplay go viral and trolls viciously mock her body size. Marcus is a gifted actor who plays Aeneas he also plays dumb in interviews to hide his dyslexia. In Dade’s story, a book series based on Virgil’s “Aeneid” has spawned a big-budget prestige television adaptation (aah, if only). We’ll have to scrabble together what scraps of learning we can - just like the scientists, scholars, sauce makers and stroke survivors featured in this month’s romances.įirst, I’m delighted to have the chance to directly and sincerely compare a romance novel to James Joyce’s “Ulysses.” Olivia Dade’s SPOILER ALERT (Avon, 416 pp., paper, $15.99), like that impossible novel, takes an ancient poem as a jumping-off point for a bold and joyous experiment in form. The start of the school year is always autumn’s great punctuation mark: I tend to think of it as the opening of a pair of brackets, but this year with all the confusion and panic it feels more like an interrobang. ![]()
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