June 19th, 2009 / 6:10 pm
Snippets
Snippets
Justin Taylor—
Deb Olin Unferth’s “Wait Till You See Me Dance” is the featured short fiction in this month’s Harper’s. A thousand huzzahs.
Nice! That’s exciting.
Nice! That’s exciting.
damn, i knew i shoulda checked out the table of contents when i was at the bookstore earlier today. instead i was lazy. harper’s was on the bottom shelf. would have required bending at the knees. deb is so worth bending for! must go back.
damn, i knew i shoulda checked out the table of contents when i was at the bookstore earlier today. instead i was lazy. harper’s was on the bottom shelf. would have required bending at the knees. deb is so worth bending for! must go back.
that would make an awesome pull-quote for a book jacket
that would make an awesome pull-quote for a book jacket
Also: excellent story. Stretches out to do those story-type things that the glossy mags tend to like, w/o sacrificing any of the Unferth weird or the Unferth crazy.
Also: excellent story. Stretches out to do those story-type things that the glossy mags tend to like, w/o sacrificing any of the Unferth weird or the Unferth crazy.
what do you like most about this story?
i preferred it to “idols” by tim gautreaux in this week’s new yorker. (they only deserve comparison because i read them on the same day and they are in print simultaneously)
i liked how, in ‘wait till you see me dance,’ the voice is able to say a wide range of things, some of which are very interesting.
the overall reading experience wasn’t great for me. it was good.
i thought the narrator was female. but sometimes i thought male.
what do you like most about this story?
i preferred it to “idols” by tim gautreaux in this week’s new yorker. (they only deserve comparison because i read them on the same day and they are in print simultaneously)
i liked how, in ‘wait till you see me dance,’ the voice is able to say a wide range of things, some of which are very interesting.
the overall reading experience wasn’t great for me. it was good.
i thought the narrator was female. but sometimes i thought male.
i liked the sections that were really short, i think
i liked the sections that were really short, i think
i like that you think you like the sections that were really short, i think
i like that you think you like the sections that were really short, i think
the large first letter after each break (i’m sure there’s a typography tech work for it) i found visually distracting. it’s okay when there’s 2 or 3 per story, but in deb’s piece there were a lot and i got dizzy looking at it.
the large first letter after each break (i’m sure there’s a typography tech work for it) i found visually distracting. it’s okay when there’s 2 or 3 per story, but in deb’s piece there were a lot and i got dizzy looking at it.