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Great New Chapbooks Corner (Mark Kerstetter reviews Robert Vaughan’s Diptychs + Triptychs + Lipsticks + Dipshits Edition) From the review: Ever since Kafka claimed that Robert Walser was one of his favorite writers, more and more readers of fiction have turned a curious eye on this singular character. And as web-based reading has caused the genre of flash fiction to flourish, Walser has emerged as its patron saint. Weird little things of prose, not quite story or poem—or maybe both—proliferate in contemporary literary journals. . . . For my taste, Vaughan’s stories are among the most colorful, pleasing, surprising and delightful in the current world of microfiction. There are indeed diptychs and triptychs in the volume, as well as stories of up to ten parts, painted like Picassos and stacked like Judds, handsomely composed artifices decorated with cinematic flourishes.
Posted on: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 14:41:42 +0000

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