Word: folklorists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rock's surreptitious narrative poet and mystic folklorist takes a funky journey to the end of the night in a rich collection of reflective love songs and groove-heavy tall tales. Music full of hellhounds and enigmatic angels of mercy...
...called Get Shorty, you know he's going to get Shorty. Leonard does not fool around. It does occur to the reader, a couple of pages before the end of the last chapter, that no character named Shorty has yet appeared. But Leonard is our funniest and most reliable folklorist of low, middle and upper-middle lowlife -- the kind of human lint that accumulates in society's navel. He knows his business, doesn...