The Weird, Sublime Joy of a Late-Summer L.A. Novel

Read Gavin Lambert's The Goodbye People by the pool

This is normally the time of the year when I hop on social media and remind everybody that Colson Whitehead’s Sag Harbor is the best book to read during August. I’m not not going to do that. In fact, I believe I just told you. So my work here could technically be done. But it’s not. Today, I’m going to add to the list of “Perfect Books for the Dog Days”…