Ken Kalfus

Author, 2 A.M. in Little America. Other titles too! Thirst, Pu-239 and Other Russian Fantasies, A Disorder Peculiar to the Country, Equilateral....

[Ken Kalfus @KenKalfus]

This review does not make me feel "undersung"!

[Milkweed Editions @Milkweed_Books]

"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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[Ken Kalfus @KenKalfus]

@herekdeckman "This time it's personal."

[Ken Kalfus @KenKalfus]

Thank you, Susan, thanks for reading it!

[Susan Sachs @susansachs]

Fantastic new book from ⁦@KenKalfus⁩

[Ken Kalfus @KenKalfus]

@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!

[Politics and Prose @PoliticsProse]

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

[Ken Kalfus @KenKalfus]

@DickPolman1 See you in the Stack!

[LetteraturaDiViaggio @Taccuini]

#Recensione @KenKalfus - Le due del mattino a Little America @FandangoLibri
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[Ken Kalfus @KenKalfus]

@jmichael424 Thank God it's Viernes. Enjoy the weekend!

[Fred Kaplan @fmkaplan]

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

[Ken Kalfus @KenKalfus]

@adamm0rgan Now that you mention it, Adam, my fifth novel, "A Hole in the Story," will be published April 1 by @Milkweed_Books

[Ken Kalfus @KenKalfus]

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.

[Ken Kalfus @KenKalfus]

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.

[Ken Kalfus @KenKalfus]

A funny, macabre novel. I was pleased to review it when it was published, in 1985.

[Ken Kalfus @KenKalfus]

Thank you. I hope it stays fiction.

[Jason Villemez @JasonVillemez]

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..

[Scientific American @sciam]

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

[Ken Kalfus @KenKalfus]

Eye-opening and poignant. After all the wars for national identity, the winners and losers are making new lives in other countries.

[Ken Kalfus @KenKalfus]

@jmichael424 Good luck, 86.

[Ken Kalfus @KenKalfus]

@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.

[Ken Kalfus @KenKalfus]

@ddillingworth Is Trieste the Jan Morris book? It's great.

[Ken Kalfus @KenKalfus]

Pleased to have taken part in the poll, excited to see the rest of the list!

[Gilbert Cruz @gilbertcruz]

The Book Review polled hundreds of writers for this project. It will roll out over the next several days.

[Ken Kalfus @KenKalfus]

@SwartzMark @BBCFreeThinking @lea_ypi @_mirelaivanova_ @TheProfRog @DrMatthewSweet Thanks for this.

[Ken Kalfus @KenKalfus]

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.