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So, best beloved, who and/or where is the implied author in Frederick Busch’s The Night Inspector ?   The who? Long time readers of this...

Before we go further in our explorations of Frederick Busch’s The Night Inspector , let’s comment on the structure of the book. If we...

Frederick Busch’s novel “The Night Inspector” begins with the protagonist, Billy Bartholomew, directing a craftsman in the construction of a

The present time of “The Night Inspector” occurs in the period after the American Civil War, 1867, although it also covers the time of...