Charles Bock, whose first novel, “Beautiful Children,”
a first-timer — a Colson Whitehead, a Zadie Smith, a Gary Shteyngart — hits the jackpot and makes the game seem worth staying in for just a little longer.
Bock worked for 11 years on “Beautiful Children” and lived for most of that time in a tiny one-bedroom Gramercy Park-area apartment that used to belong to Mary-Beth Hughes, who made a minor splash a half-dozen years ago with her debut novel, “Wavemaker II.”
“Near-genius,” A. M. Homes has called it, and it made No. 53 on Esquire’s latest list of the top 100 things you need to know about.
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