Nicole Krauss

Review: FOREST DARK by Nicole Krauss
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Review: FOREST DARK by Nicole Krauss

Bye.v. de cleyre

Forest Dark Nicole Krauss Harper Collins; September 2017 304 pp; $27.99 Buy: hardcover | eBook In February 2015, a small, easy-to-miss column appeared at the beginning of Elle magazine. Squeezed between advertisements, novelist Nicole Krauss wrote of her grandmother’s career as a door-to-door bra saleswoman in London from 1949 to 1954. Her grandmother wore a…

Writing the Mind: Nicole Krauss, W.G. Sebald, & Paul Harding
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Writing the Mind: Nicole Krauss, W.G. Sebald, & Paul Harding

Bye.v. de cleyre

How does one apply the adage show don’t tell to the interior of the mind—a vast expanse one inhabits daily, but never sees? While Pixar’s Inside Out turns the subconscious into a playful and sometimes dark adventure, literature must rely on language—pacing, syntax, and form matching function. In the early pages of Nicole Krauss’s novel Great…