Joseph Laizure
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Joseph Laizure said:
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Jaimy Gordon's language is scaring me. It's tough and generous and unashamed. But it also swerves (sorry) toward a kind of fake lyricism that is choking American fiction in and out of MFA programs, the kind of writing where unusual vocabulary and an
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Joseph Laizure said:
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So I flock to spy novels, so what? This promises to be a weird blend of Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes and...well, the setting is all wrong for this comparison, but some of Katherine Anne Porter's novellas and short stories.
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