Fiction. "FORTIFICATION RESORT's multi-perspectival prose proposes imagined worlds contiguously saturated by modes of nourishment and shapes of loss. Crawford's structured improvisations delineate microclimates of strangeness, civility, fullness, and insufficiency within human community. Her quirky sentences are remarkably palpable and personal, bringing the reader crazy-quilt close to object meeting skin."—Carla Harryman"If anyone asks, you can tell them that contemporary America's outstanding literary realist is named Lynn Crawford, and that she goes around disguised as a formalist. Read these 'prose sestinas' and learn more than you may be willing to know about who we are and the 'fortification resort' we live in—or just be entertained, if you can, by her verbal bravura. Whatever: When you read that 'our current project is an unisex hydrating cream that doubles as insulation against low temperature chill,' you've got to think, Damn, I need some of that."—Barry Schwabsky

Fortification Resort

Literature & Fiction

Crawford, Lynn

Poetry

The Brooklyn Rail/Black Square Editions

<p>Fiction. "SIMPLY SEPARATE PEOPLE, TWO is a magical machine whose innards are in plain view but whose operating principles remain profoundly mysterious. A dazzling feat of collage and reverse-engineering, Crawford writes in a deceptively east-going style that's both critical of and generous to all our bad and beautiful scurrying around"—Eugene Kim. "Lynn Crawford is a dead-on inventor of human dislocation. Her people, separated as they are from both themselves and the rest of the world, are skinlessly rendered by a writer who reminds us of who we are inside our own skins. At the center of the world stands Bry, a sort of unseen/unheard Everywoman. It is through her eyes and through her attempts at invention and singularity that we follow along and feel through the struggle and interplay between the binds of domestic reality and the desire to find and tell a story richer and taller and ultimately more mysterious than one's own birthright. This novel is more than just a story, more than just a book; it is a world entire unto itself, and the people in it become more like real people, like made out of flesh neighbors, than simply characters made out of ink"—Peter Markus.</p>

Simply Separate People, Two

Contemporary

<p>Fiction. The Brooklyn Rail/Black Square Editions is excited to publish a new edition of TO SMITHEREENS, a novel by Rosalyn Drexler that has been unavailable for far too long. When TO SMITHEREENS was originally published in 1972, the New York Review of Books said of it, "There's hope for literature yet." The novel, based on Drexler's life, chronicles the adventures of a lady wrestler named Rosa Carlo the Mexican Spitfire. Rosalyn Drexler was born in 1926 and her creative career has been long and varied, as she has written novels, essays, and plays as well as painted explosive images that rival the best work of the Pop-art generation.</p>

To Smithereens

Drexler, Rosalyn

Literary

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