Wideman is very realistic, heavy, and depressing. I'd
recommend reading him, but not when you're feeling down and
vulnerable. IIRC, a lot of his plots are based on family
members' travails, which makes the gloom and doom
worse.
I heard Lynch do a reading on NPR.
He's the "poet-undertaker"--good but not my cuppa.
The other two are unfamiliar.
Joy
Michael Robison wrote:
> I got the book from Amazon and, as usual, it made
some other interesting
> recommendations. Here's a few of the ones I thought
interesting:
>
> ANIMAL SOUL, Bob Hicok
> THE UNDERTAKING, Thomas Lynch
> BAY OF ANGELS, Brookner
> BROTHERS AND KEEPERS, Wideman
>
> Any of these sound familiar?
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