I have never felt at ease in language. I did not grow up among books or among people who read them. I… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
I learned to read but not to comprehend, and that might well have stood me in good stead, because what's there to… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
The narrators get into trouble and make fools of themselves with their perversely impulsive fondlings of the language. These people have retreated… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
Dylan Nice's Other Kinds is the most extraordinary short-story-col lection debut I have read in years. It is a book to be memorized. — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
I prefer the sorts of words that go their own way and are very choosy about where they end up. They don't fall for… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
“Because some days the world holds true at the drop of a hat, don't you find? Things favor themselves: whatever you reach for -… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
“Most days what I felt was this: the minute you put a first name and a last name together, you've got a pair of… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
The writer, as I see it, has the right of way, so it's up to the reader to look out. — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
Mike Topp is a disablingly funny writer--a miniaturist of nervous precisions, our supreme abridger of metropolitan startlement and inner fidgetry. He dazes and graces… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
Kim Chinquee writes with remarkable heart and grace. Her wise capsulizings of love's devastations and of life's roil and disappointments come at you with… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
“I don't know which is finally sicker -- specifics or engulfing abstractions.” — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
Then came nights when, lying awake beside my final wife, I would spend too much time putting my finger on what was wrong. I… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
There's much too much mismating in the Microsofted phrasery of our day. And I like sentences that are societies unto themselves and shun any… — Gary Lutz Copy Share Image
