(originally posted on February 21, 2010)
It's a new name, a new style, and a new publisher for the man once and still known as John Rickards, and I think the change on all writerly fronts is absolutely the right one to make at this point in his career. THE LEVELS is dystopic without being obvious about it, instead creating a tangible, darkened world each of the seemingly doomed characters inhabits, tries to escape from and ultimately accepts in one form or another. It's the written version of the burnt out, empty buildings captured on film by Godfrey Riggio with Philip Glass scoring underneath - a landscape that repels and attracts but is too busy moving and changing to care what you think or are uncomfortable with. Indiebound | Borders | B & N | Amazon | Powell’s
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