“Does integrity lie in failure?”

Isaac Fitzgerald bio ↓ · December 9th, 2009 · filed under books

“All of Powell’s work is moved along by language: No one else talks to you this way. No one else asks you questions like this. But more brilliant than the sentences are the novel’s variations in rhythm. The questions accelerate and then coast, oscillating from profound to pedestrian.”

Jeff Parker reviews Padgett Powell’s The Interrogative Mood.

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Isaac Fitzgerald has been a firefighter, worked on a boat, and been given a sword by a king, thereby accomplishing three out of five of his childhood goals. He has also written for The Bold Italic, McSweeney's, Mother Jones, and The San Francisco Chronicle. He is the managing editor of The Rumpus. Follow him on Twitter. More from this author →

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