“Dining Room” from Selah Saterstrom’s The Pink Institution (Coffee House, 2004): “Willie called his daughters into the dining room. He picked up a dining room table chair and threw it into a closed window. The window shattered. He said, ‘That’s a lesson about virginity. Do you understand?’ to which they replied, ‘Yes sir.’” Okay, wow, [...]
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Insults Won’t Make Me Read Your Book or the Book You Want Me to Read
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Joan Acocella, New Yorker, Robert Steiner, Steig Larsson on January 4, 2011 | 20 Comments »
In the New Yorker’s latest article on the lives of the rich and famous, Joan Acocella writes about why Steig Larsson’s books are so popular. The first paragraph of this article contains this sentence: If you have been in a coma, say, for the past two years, and have not read the Millennium trilogy, about [...]
Month of Gratitude: Thanks, Robert Steiner!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Negative Space, Robert Steiner on November 3, 2010 | 10 Comments »
I’m in the middle of writing a review of Robert Steiner’s Negative Space, after having read it twice. It’s a marvelous novella mapping the mania of a cuckolded man, featuring lyrically meandering sentences, like this one: “Smoldering ruins can occupy a panorama the way from our terrace I witness the olive grove, and the sea [...]
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