Slaked

[Jane Grant]

I must be getting soft in my Afterlife, but I actually enjoyed Doug's review. It's always a pleasure to read smoothly written prose. More importantly, Doug's review made me want to read Thirst, something the raves in that petrified artifact the NYTBR rarely do in these gloriously shitty days of its dottage. 
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On Mon, 21 Dec 1998 13:00:33   Doug Millison wrote:
>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1998/11/29/RV4
>4524.DTL
>
>is the url of my review of Thirst. Make sure you copy it all into your
>browser "go to" window and it should come up. If that doesn't work, go to
>http://www.sfgate.com/search/, plug my last name (Millison) in the FastFind
>box, and that should bring up a link to my reivew, too.
>
>I liked Kalfus' book a lot. A couple of the stories were a bit lighter than
>the rest, but the rest were wonderful. Kalfus lives in Moscow (or he did
>when I wrote the review earlier this year), and I carried on some email
>correspondence with him. Space limitations prevented dealing with it in the
>review, but Kalfus told me he counted Pynchon among authors he would
>consider influences on his own writing. I find nothing particularly
>Pynchonian in his style, but the international scope of his work and his
>serious concern for people who become pawns of corporate and governmental
>forces far beyond their control show an affinity, perhaps.  He also told me
>that he had previously written some stories that DFW published in a
>literary quarterly (DFW was editor), I don't recall if those stories are
>collected in _Thirst_ or not, nor do I recall the name of the journal.
>
>I did manage to work a Pynchon mention into my brief review, of course.
>
>If all else fails, you could buy _Thirst_ at Amazon.com.
>
>
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> Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
>       --Groucho Marx
>


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