Schaden Freud Thriller The swing-for-the-fences commercial fiction game unfortunately produces more expensive misses than hits, and today’s WSJ offers one of those classic chronicles of a book that didn’t make it. Today’s focus is Jed Rubenfeld’s INTERPRETATION OF MURDER, though it’s easy to list other novels this year that have shared the same fate (including those from bloggers, a descendant of Jesus, and a brain tumor survivor). These stories always work better when there is some answer for why the book didn’t work in the marketplace the way the publisher, booksellers and press thought it would, but of course that […]
