Tartt, Donna. The Secret History. New York: Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2004. The original copyright year is 1992, so that explains why everyone uses payphones, and most knowledge–or rather, information–still, is available only at a premium, that is, by the study of untranslated primary texts, or contact with the educated. The book is dedicated to Bret Easton Ellis; it turns out that Ellis mentions the characters in one of his own novels. I wonder if the market for cocaine-rusted LA ki...
