The Facades by Eric Lundgren
Matthew Pitt reviews Eric Lundgren’s THE FACADES today in The Rumpus Book Review.
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Posts by: Matthew Pitt
“Possibility: Essays Against Despair,” by Patricia Vigderman
I like Patricia Vigderman because she likes jickjacking. She describes in “A Writer’s Harvest”, an earlier piece in Possibility: Essays Against Despair, how the sight of that slangy word, in two distinct (but linked) stories—one by Mary Karr, the other by David Foster Wallace—motivate her toward personal tangents and pleasures. “For I am one,” she […]
...morePitt on Parker
The Rumpus assigned “dueling reviews” to the authors of two new short story collections. It didn’t really work out so well.
...moreSlouching Towards Baltimore
Geoffrey Becker’s second novel races across the country in the company of “spiritual beings having a human experience.”
...moreTunneling to the Center of the Earth
A new and heralded collection of short stories digs to the heart of obsession, isolation, and strangeness.
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