June 19th, 2009 / 6:10 pm
Snippets

Deb Olin Unferth’s “Wait Till You See Me Dance” is the featured short fiction in this month’s Harper’s. A thousand huzzahs.

16 Comments

  1. Ken Baumann

      Nice! That’s exciting.

  2. Ken Baumann

      Nice! That’s exciting.

  3. elizabeth ellen

      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.

  4. elizabeth ellen

      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.

  5. ryan

      that would make an awesome pull-quote for a book jacket

  6. ryan

      that would make an awesome pull-quote for a book jacket

  7. Mark Doten

      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.

  8. Mark Doten

      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.

  9. sam

      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.

  10. sam

      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.

  11. colin

      i liked the sections that were really short, i think

  12. colin

      i liked the sections that were really short, i think

  13. noam chomsky

      i like that you think you like the sections that were really short, i think

  14. noam chomsky

      i like that you think you like the sections that were really short, i think

  15. Jimmy Chen

      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.

  16. Jimmy Chen

      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.