Wolf is ably assisted by his legman, the noir mystery-lite Archie Goodwin, who also narrates the books. For anyone unfamiliar with the series, it centers on the mysteries solved by the vastly overweight genius detective Nero Wolfe, who rarely if ever leaves his Manhattan brownstone. An inveterate re-reader, I can ignore my overflowing TBR pile for days, weeks, even months at a time as I slip back into the comfort of ground already tramped and worlds already explored. And I tend toward series, because it feels natural to hop from the end of one to the beginning of another. As a writer myself, when I’m immersed in my own writing projects, I gravitate toward books that it easy on my cerebrum. So the fact that Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe series has been part of my “comfort reading” for many years now is in itself a mystery.īut let me first define what I mean by “comfort reading.” It’s a rare day that I’m not reading something, generally a novel, and I find it hard to fall asleep without a book in my hand. But I do have genres I avoid, including horror and mystery. I tell my writing students at The Writers Circle that I’m an eclectic reader, and it’s true.
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