7 smart and sassy crime fiction writers dish on writing and life. It's The View. With bodies.
JULIA SPENCER-FLEMING : One of fiction's great gifts is its ability to explore deep questions about human nature, history, society, and ethics - all while making the reader think they're having fun. DUNE is a thrilling adventure set in the unimaginably distant future - and it's about the horrors of colonialism. HUCKLEBERRY FINN is a picaresque, comic adventure on the Mississippi - and it's about the evils of racism.
So you're thinking, yeah, Julia, but those are GREAT BOOKS and the moral lessons are super obvious. Well, yes. But. When those novels were first published, they didn't arrive with decades of academic papers pointing out the deeper messages (although, like the book we're discussing today, UKULELE OF DEATH , they got excellent reviews.)
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