Matt Seidel

The seasons are changing, but let’s linger for a moment on those books that capture one summer day, from Bellow to Woolf.

<p>From Paris in <i>The Iliad</i> to Mickey Sabbath in <i>Sabbath’s Theater</i>, horrible house guests have invited themselves into people’s homes and powered countless chaotic narratives in our literature. Matt Seidel looks at the different ways three recent novels draw from this disruptive theme.</p>