Tuesday, June 07, 2011

News at Eleven: [Paul Lisicky's] new novella,

"The Burning House," set unsurprisingly in New Jersey, is an extraordinary fiction in that it sustains a believable poetic voice throughout. That's no small feat, since Lisicky must convince the reader that narrator Isidore Mirsky, an artistic, college-educated, unemployed jack-of-all-trades, has not only the soul but the voice of a poet.

from The Boston Globe: Poetic novella aches with desire, despair

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