“The unsaid, for me, exerts great power”: Nobel laureate Louise Glück is dead at age eighty
The Wild Iris won the Pulitzer Prize; the 2014 collection Faithful and Virtuous Night won the National Book Award.
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The Wild Iris won the Pulitzer Prize; the 2014 collection Faithful and Virtuous Night won the National Book Award.
"I was entrusted and now I owe something back."
Klein's sprawling, anxious, scattershot approach to her material offers an objective correlative of what she claims was her mental state leading up to the writing of the book.
Bringing these stories together in one place highlights the genre contributions of Black writers.
"My next task is to figure out how to do audiobooks."
Other considerations aside, this represents one of the strongest Giller shortlists in years.
The more obviously generic elements of the story are less unsettling than the very real horrors of racism and family strife.
"Fosse blends a rootedness in the language and nature of his Norwegian background with artistic techniques in the wake of modernism."
Reading Koja's novel in 1991 was a revelation, as well as a reminder that horror is able to deal with large themes and philosophically weighty subject matter.
Weirdly, horror fiction is one of those places capable of provoking a sense of calm.