"From the undersung Kalfus, another tonally intricate triumph, this one about the bewilderment, alienation, and sheer strangeness of being a refugee."
A @KirkusReviews 🌟star🌟 for @KenKalfus's novel 2 A.M. IN LITTLE AMERICA, out 5/10.
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@jmichael424 Thanks, Jeff. Just seeing this (took a break from Twitter). My wife Inga saw the show and liked it (with caveats), and I just missed it. Hope you had a good summer!
Wednesday, join @KenKalfus to discuss A HOLE IN THE STORY - exploring one imperfect man's dilemmas as he tries to keep his feet in a shifting moral landscape - 7PM @ CONN AVE - https://t.co/pDqCa544nb
My novel, A CAPITAL CALAMITY, IS OUT, @AnnieJacobsen, author of "Nuclear War: A Scenario," gives it "five stars...very dark and very funny," adding, "Anything Fred Kaplan writes, I read." https://t.co/kv1sTt5gyf
For a young and youngish reader like myself, Coover revealed that fiction was a universe of vast possibility. So many different ways to tell a story, the narrative encoded in so many forms (like a tabletop baseball game). These lessons still inform my reading.
Robert Coover was a master punner. In “The Universal Baseball Association, J. Henry Waugh, Prop.”, Waugh is short for Yahweh. “Gerald’s Party,” mourns the end of Gerald’s sex life. It opens with the discovery of a dead body, his ex-lover Ros. Ros for Eros of course.
I want to shout out @KenKalfus and his incredibly timely novel 2 A.M. in Little America. It's about an American refugee abroad who has escaped the country (which is now dominated by local militias and paramilitaries). Centralized government is gone. People killed bc of politics..
For only the second time in our 179-year history, the editors of Scientific American are endorsing a candidate for president. That person is @KamalaHarris. | Editorial https://t.co/dOsFW8BQCn
@wesyang Scientific American has been political since 1948, when its new editors, Gerard Piel and Dennis Flanagan, declared that society should set the scientific agenda. True, it’s recently become more partisan, but only in response to the rise of an anti-science political party.
RIP the Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare, realist, fabulist and nationalist. Delighted to have reviewed 3 of his books. My favorite is “Chronicle in Stone,” set in the southern city of Gjirokastra during WWII. I reviewed it for the Village Voice Literary Supplement, RIP ditto.