Kurt Gottschalk's Blog

Another Sentence About "Sentences"

Quirky, humorous, occasionally whimsical and often thought provoking, [Sentences] is both a quick and slow page turner simultaneously, meant in a good way.

- Len37, Ecstasy Mule

Another One Sentence Response to "Sentences"

"Zinn's yogic axioms were victorious until these Sentences, riddling querulously, piqued our nosiness, 'My Lord! Kurt's jazz insensibilities have gazumped famous discontinuists Cage, Braxton & Ayler.'"

- John Bissett, guitarist, videographer

A New Sentence About "Sentences"

"David wasn't sure whether the sentences were meant to be served consecutively or concurrently but secretly hoped it was the latter."

- David Wilson, Wilson & Alroy's Record Reviews

Another Sentence for "Sentences"

"'Sentences' by Kurt Gottschalk is like the horizon it is everything there is in one line. All the joy, all the couriousity, all the pain it is written in both techicolor and black in white at the same time"

- bassist/composer William Parker

One Sentence Reviews for Sentences

Kurt Gottschalk's new book Sentences is an addictive treasure where the reader bounces from clever bites of wisdom to Woody-Allen-meets-Dada one-liners to gentle observations that make a person stop, digest, and get excited for the next page.

-Lisa Ferber, screenwriter, "The Sisters Plotz"

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Kurt Gottschalk plunges bravely into that shape-shifting beast known as the sentence, and he emerges with this beautiful book that provides just as many questions as answers, and takes the reader on an intelligent journey through a joyful mix of words that all come to the same inevitable end: the period.

-Florence Wetzel, author, "Dashiki," "Perry Robinson: The Traveler," "Elvis in the Morning: Poems and Tales"

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Lots of white space sometimes means depth, othertimes emptiness.

- Andrey Henkin, editor, NYC Jazz Record

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Aphorisms, spoonerisms, single sentence novels, an encyclopedia of the ineffable - great stuff (and very educational).

- Marc Ribot, guitarist