Ben Tanzer is everywhere. And now he is here for the most recent in what has clearly become an occasional series of interviews. That’s right, this Chicago man-about-town and publishing champion submitted to the grueling e-mail mindslog known to you as The Big Other interview. Davis: Answer a banal question you might imagine a novice [...]
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Spitballing on MY FATHER’S HOUSE by Ben Tanzer
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ben Tanzer, Main Street Rag, My Father's House on November 14, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I’m beginning to think Ben Tanzer is writing a fictional biography of himself through his novels. If you read them chronologically: Lucky Man, Most Likely You Go Your Way and I Go Mine, You Can Make Him Like You (which I had the good fortune to publish), and most recently the novella, My Father’s House, [...]
Tom Williams’s THE MIMIC’S OWN VOICE
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged comedic studies, Douglas Myles, Edwin Mulhouse, Eisenheim the Illusionist, Main Street Rag, Steven Milhauser, The Mimic's Own Voice, Tom Williams on May 5, 2011 | 4 Comments »
The Mimic’s Own Voice by Tom Williams Main Street Rag, 97 pages, $9.95 This is a difficult book to write about because it’s so commandingly impressive. The writing is tight, expository, and emerges more from the school of “tell” than the school of “show.” I’m reminded most of Steven Milhauser’s story “Eisenheim the Illusionist” and [...]
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