The Choirboys is funny in ways you just can’t imagine seeing in a book these days. It’s a masterpiece, with a Shakespearean mix of comedy, tragedy, and hella go

The Choirboys is funny in ways you just can’t imagine seeing in a book these days. It’s a masterpiece, with a Shakespearean mix of comedy, tragedy, and hella good prose. The language is not remotely as sensitive as we expect these days: it’s not racist but everyone is more… frank than we are accustomed to. I’m in my 60s and it was already retrograde in Southern California when it was published. The cops in it sound like New Yorkers, not Angelenos.