Humbugs a fabulous read

Robert Majzels' THE HUMBUGS DIET is a fabulous read. Certainly one of the more pleasurable of late which begs the question: why don't more intelligent, experimental and thought provoking writers engage in genre writing? I would love, love, love to see a series of meta-literary mystery novels by a series of literary writers pitched at a general readership. Not written down-to, that's insulting, but playing with and (imagine that, possibly enjoying?) the process, the genre, its history and expectations, and the reader--yes, the reader! But well written, with a way of utilizing plottish elements without making them clunkingly essential to the work... Majzels has fun with this novel, featuring a geriatric failed detective who gets caught up against his own better judgment in a very informal and entertaining murder investigation at a well located retirement home in Yonkers.