I don't like to read or write about life in its tiring entirety. Most days, months, even years are just filler between those few moments of modest but decisive catastrophe, misfortunes so fittingly flimsy they're almost welcome. The heart doesn't… — 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 from the world, in which they keep falling short, and into language, where they fall even shorter. The… — 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
