Fieldwork is a novel by Mischa Berlinski that is not science or other genre fiction (it’s about hill tribes in Thailand; I’ve yet to get more than three chapters in), was a National Book Award Finalist, and does have a Stephen King blurb on the front cover. Yes, normally that would be three strikes and you’re out, but I was sufficiently intrigued by somebody on Twitter raving about the book that I thought that I would give it a try anyway. It is surprisingly readable, so far! Not something that I would expect from non-genre fiction, to be honest, but I suppose that it’s unreasonable to assume that they’re all substandard. I suppose that I am, in the end, a bit of a literary snob — so this should be a lesson to me. Continue reading In the Mail: Fieldwork.