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Lonely Voice

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  • Peter Orner
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The Lonely Voice #27: William Trevor, What Haunts Us Is Us

  • Peter Orner
  • November 21, 2016
And this is the majesty of William Trevor. He creates—and at the same time affirms—the dark we’ve all got inside us. He gives our nightmares flesh.
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The Lonely Voice #30: Brief Early Morning Thoughts on Ahab

  • Peter Orner
  • July 3, 2015
I find that lately I do more reading than writing, and more thinking than either.
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The Lonely Voice #29: Feels like the World, On a Story by Richard Bausch

  • Peter Orner
  • November 6, 2014
Richard Bausch can take your head off with a plain sentence. He’s direct, no frills, no pirouettes. A writer who says what he means and not a word more.
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LONELY VOICE #17: In Love Again and Doomed (Part Two of Five Stray Thoughts on Kafka)

  • Peter Orner
  • February 21, 2012
My lung was fair at least out there, here where I’ve been for the last fortnight. I’ve not been able to see the doctor. But it can’t be so bad…
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THE LONELY VOICE #14: Isaac Babel, Every Grief Soaked Word

  • Peter Orner
  • December 14, 2011
I mourn him like a lost brother. I’ve no right to say this. It’s ridiculous. Yet some voices, we convince ourselves, can’t be lived without.
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THE LONELY VOICE #12: Cheever in Albania Or The Lonely Voice Hates Travel Writing

  • Peter Orner
  • July 21, 2011
There are few things more riveting than watching people gossip in a language you don’t understand.
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THE LONELY VOICE #4: John Edgar Wideman Confronts

  • Peter Orner
  • May 19, 2009
Some stories cut so close you can only tell them in shards.
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