This New York Times review reminds us that if you haven’t thought of something new to write about, you just aren’t thinking hard enough:
The narrator of “An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England”
is an accidental firebug “with blood and soot on his hands.” He
committed the unspeakable crime of burning down Emily Dickinson’s
house. Thus he threw Amherst, Mass., into turmoil, not only because he
violated the legacy of the college town’s cherished literary Belle but
also because he killed “two of its loafered citizens” in the process.