This review was published in the very cool, new Washington Independent Review of Books on June 9, 2011. WIRB is highly recommended. Lightning By Jean Echenoz, The New Press, 142 pages Thomas Edison, masterminding a dubious turn-of-the 20th century media event, staged the electrocution death of Topsy, an unfortunate Coney Island elephant, on January 4, 1903. […]
