Already compared with a range of striking authors (Saunders, Barthelme, July), Ken Nash’s debut collection of short stories The Brain Harvest
(2012) has another couple of forebears I’d like to add to the list.
From the opening story ‘Baskets’ (allegedly about basket weaving),
sections of The Brain Harvest are clearly the equal of Melville’s Bartleby the Scrivener. And like the critic of Melville’s Pierre: or, The Ambiguities, certain readers are sure to say:
Read more here
Read more here
No comments:
Post a Comment