We have come to appreciate the art of the great blurb. Few approach this one from Gary Amdahl, author of Visigoth and Across My Big Brass Bed. Join us this coming Monday, April 22 at 7 pm at the Poetry Center at Smith College to help us launch Michael Thurston's great first novel, Houses from Another Street (
https://bit.ly/2TU2FLy).
"In the stream of Trinity River consciousness, Dusters and Darts, Sunbirds and Celicas, a susurration of Stevens, a dithyramb of Dickinson, cantiones of Keats, and above all, frissons of Frost, the agony and the ecstasy of the quarter-miler, the banal evil of high school hallways, the petty anger of the father and then white hot wrath, the teacher of English against whose call the narrator fails to tie himself to the mast ... the idea of a river hardly does justice to Houses from Another Street. There is something very powerful at work here that I can’t easily describe, but the shorthand is “physical intellect.” And man, it just makes me feel good again about American fiction, after a very long estrangement."
