In The Girl With Brown Fur Stacey Levine has invented stories that will thrill readers of literary fiction who hunger for an innovative Amer...
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Sep 06, 2011
Matt
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This is one of those books that falls into the zone that reveals my ignorance. I'm pretty comfortable, I think, with what I take to be the two primary modes of American fiction, those that are strictly narrative and those which are primarily language driven. This book, and I've read others like it, works differently; language is at play here, though the writing itself is kind of strangled with abstraction: imagine a Marianne Moore prose work, full of archaisms and slightly adjacent meanings, and
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Jun 02, 2011
Jason
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(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted illegally.)
(Originally written for Daniel Casey's Gently Read Literature.)
Ah, the MFA story collection; has a more beguiling trickster ever existed in the literary world? Originally a cutting-edge means of education at a time when "creative writing" was largely seen as an unworthy subjec More...
(Originally written for Daniel Casey's Gently Read Literature.)
Ah, the MFA story collection; has a more beguiling trickster ever existed in the literary world? Originally a cutting-edge means of education at a time when "creative writing" was largely seen as an unworthy subjec More...
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Apr 19, 2011
Kevin
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In case you missed it when Macadam/Cage put it out (that's 99% of you), here's my review of Levine's book, which was just reprinted by Starcherone...
I first fell in love with Stacey's writing through her first book, My Horse & Other Stories, which is one of my all-time favorites. She's had a couple of novels between then and now but I've been jonesing for more of her short fiction for too long. This is a great collection full of her usual deadpan humor, seemingly random surrealist touches, More...
I first fell in love with Stacey's writing through her first book, My Horse & Other Stories, which is one of my all-time favorites. She's had a couple of novels between then and now but I've been jonesing for more of her short fiction for too long. This is a great collection full of her usual deadpan humor, seemingly random surrealist touches, More...
Sep 19, 2011
Louis
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If Lydia Davis and George Saunders had a baby, and that baby was christened by Donald Barthelme... Stacey Levine is something like that.
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