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Look Down, This is Where it Must Have Happened
by
Hal Niedzviecki (Goodreads Author)
Praise for Hal Niedzviecki's fiction:
"Look Down, This is Where it Must Have Happened reveals the super powers of story telling for the digital age--or any age. The collection encompasses a range of literary genres, from magical to domestic realism, from the absurdity of a fetus quoting statistics to dialogue so fresh you’ll look around to see who’s talking."--The Rumpus
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"Look Down, This is Where it Must Have Happened reveals the super powers of story telling for the digital age--or any age. The collection encompasses a range of literary genres, from magical to domestic realism, from the absurdity of a fetus quoting statistics to dialogue so fresh you’ll look around to see who’s talking."--The Rumpus
"Ha...more
Paperback, 152 pages
Published
April 19th 2011
by City Lights Publishers
(first published April 1st 2011)
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I received this book as part of the Goodreads First Reads program.
This is a bit out there in terms of writing style from the sort of thing I usually read, but that was a good thing in this case. I like keeping a bit of variety in my reading habits. I do keep up with a lot of contemporary and literary fiction, but Niedzviecki's alluring style of prose drew me in from the first story in this collection.
All of the stories in Look Down... examine modern life in a creative manner. Some stories hooked...more
This is a bit out there in terms of writing style from the sort of thing I usually read, but that was a good thing in this case. I like keeping a bit of variety in my reading habits. I do keep up with a lot of contemporary and literary fiction, but Niedzviecki's alluring style of prose drew me in from the first story in this collection.
All of the stories in Look Down... examine modern life in a creative manner. Some stories hooked...more
i had never read anything by hal niedzviecki so thanks city lights for the chance as i was a first reads winner. the book keeps the 5 star rating i gave as pre-read based on promptness of getting book. the author is a fantastic writer and can not say enough for the way his mind works and the way all of the stories moved along so fast. there was a little confusion as table of contents had stories ending on different page from where they actually ended and the stories, especially the first one abo...more
Hal Heidzviecki has written a short-story collection about lost souls haggard by time and place. The weary wisdom of the young artist: “We live in peculiar times. I haven’t given up on understanding them. There are elections but nobody votes. There are political parties but they all promise the same thing. Why not? We are simple people. We want what they promise.” The prose is direct and energetic, and at times, heroic in its depictions of the ordinary, “The whiskers his wife shaves gently each...more
Look Down, This is Where it Must Have Happened is not a light book, and not easy to read--it's the kind of book you need to be in a particular mood for.
There's a kind of listlessness running through all the stories, and a majority of the main characters seem to be disconnected from their lives and the people around them. The feeling is enhanced by the lack of quotation marks, so that other characters' speech seems weirdly dampened and distant.
For the overall tone of the book, it is sad and sat...more
There's a kind of listlessness running through all the stories, and a majority of the main characters seem to be disconnected from their lives and the people around them. The feeling is enhanced by the lack of quotation marks, so that other characters' speech seems weirdly dampened and distant.
For the overall tone of the book, it is sad and sat...more
"Fiction writer, social critic, and founding editor of indie literary magazine Broken Pencil Hal Niedzviecki has done it all. He has built his reputation on his ability to smartly skewer social conventions, picking apart aspects of our culture and revealing their absurdities. In his latest book, Look Down, This Is Where It Must Have Happened, Niedzviecki turns again to fiction, with a collection of 13 short stories that are both topical and timely. From terrorism to abortion, the subjects he gra...more
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Really interesting writing... I personally get peeved at a lack of punctuation (particularly quotation marks for dialogue), but I surprisingly got past that and really enjoyed the stories. They tended to throw you in abruptly and pull you out just as fast, but it was a good trip regardless.
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Hal Niedzviecki is a writer, culture commentator and editor whose work challenges
preconceptions and confronts readers with the offenses of everyday life. Hal works in both the fiction and nonfiction genres. He is the author
of books including, in fiction, the novel Ditch, and his latest novel The Program. In nonfiction, his most recent work is The Peep Diaries: How We're Learning To Love Watching...more
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preconceptions and confronts readers with the offenses of everyday life. Hal works in both the fiction and nonfiction genres. He is the author
of books including, in fiction, the novel Ditch, and his latest novel The Program. In nonfiction, his most recent work is The Peep Diaries: How We're Learning To Love Watching...more
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