What’s Weird and Wonderful?
By LENORE SKENAZY
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There are few less promising pursuits in contemporary prose than attempts at lyricism. Kevin Brockmeier, whose well-regarded “The Brief History of the Dead” (2006) brought him one or two cycles of literary attention, is perhaps the model of the lyrical contemporary writer. The opening passage of “A Fable Ending in the Sound of a Thousand Parakeets,” the first story of his new collection, “The View From the Seventh Layer” (Pantheon, 267 pages, $21.95), should, however, dispel any illusions about the merit of that distinction:
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|There are few less promising pursuits in contemporary prose than attempts at lyricism. Kevin Brockmeier, whose well-regarded “The Brief History of the Dead” (2006) brought him one or two cycles of literary attention, is perhaps the model of the lyrical contemporary writer. The opening passage of “A Fable Ending in the Sound of a Thousand Parakeets,” the first story of his new collection, “The View From the Seventh Layer” (Pantheon, 267 pages, $21.95), should, however, dispel any illusions about the merit of that distinction:
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