![]() ![]() She’d been sure the book was by a woman until she found out that it was actually by Mallory, her fellow editor at William Morrow.īut Parker’s New Yorker article suggests that Mallory’s skill at mimicry wasn’t confined to fiction. She was selling it as the work of a gifted mimic: What was incredible about this novel, the editor said, was that Mallory was so brilliant at taking on the voices of other people. ![]() Two years ago at a publishing conference, I watched an editor enthusiastically pitch the then-forthcoming Woman in the Window to a room full of booksellers and librarians. Finn - which is a competent but paint-by-numbers thriller that is substantially less interesting than Mallory’s real-life story appears to be. It definitely eclipses Mallory’s 2018 novel The Woman in the Window - written under the pen name A.J. It’s a new article in the New Yorker by Ian Parker about the editor and author Dan Mallory, and it is filled with so many twists and turns, such scheming and brazen lies, that it eclipses fiction. The greatest thriller I have read this year is not a book. ![]()
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