Edward St. Aubyn: The Simile
Edward St. Aubyn, author of the Patrick Melrose novels (on which the Showtime miniseries starring Benedict Cumberbatch was based), writes impeccable prose, as pared down and drily funny as Evelyn Waugh at his best, but heart-piercingly poignant in a way that Waugh rarely (never?) is. That‘s because St. Aubyn spins his fiction, equal parts black…