People were appalled by this scene when the novel was first published, and I can’ t tell you enough how fresh the prose reads, and how ahead of his time Norris was. Oddly, Trina eventually becomes his wife, even though McTeague’ s friend Marcus has…

For three hours, we ducked down under low bridges, drank beer and sekt, and ate sausages and ice cream, all while the sun made its slow descent below the horizon. The weather was perfect– high 70s cooling into the breezy low- 70s. As the colorful graf…