Based on "Where We Come From", the first Oscar Cásares novel that I have read, this writer is a master of understated highlights. His discipline, his control of what happens on the page, is formidable.
Where We Come From
Atlanta Evening – Editor’s Pick
These days, he waited before he interrupted. And he interrupted only when he was about to burst: No way his daughter was enlisting. Nor was she going to Afghanistan, or Syria, or wherever, he added, wiping his fingers on his pants. Given his Vietnam frolic, what was she thinking?
Stephen Massimilla’s When We Fell In Love
I have long loved stories, literature, philosophy and the search for meaning they entail, and have long considered thinking and writing almost one in the same.
Leaving the Long Weekend; Pale Grasp of Mist; Time-Space Share; Equatorial Illusions
Wish I could turn myself into these fata morganas, handfuls of sensations that sway me under down pours only dimly understood.
Heartbeat
Now his sister comes back to the car. She has been in the cheese shop by herself buying cheese while they wait outside in the car. She loves cheese. Sometimes she says she will run away and join a cheese cult, but that’s just a joke. She is ten and knows almost everything.
Joost de Vries Talks about “The Republic”
In quite a lot of books, the narrator is a camera; he just observes and let other characters do the entertaining heavy lifting. I wanted to have a Nathan Zuckerman-kinda protagonist, who sets out and does all kinds of stupid stuff himself, is funny, is weird, is misguided, is in his way quite brave and adventurous. He does a lot of things I would not dare to do myself.