| |
| | Review - Lenny Bruce is Dead by Jonathan Goldstein |
 | | It was that Jonathan risked that possibility at every turn, never turned away from that risk, and that the possibility of things going horribly wrong on the textual level mirrored perfectly, infected the text absolutely, not mirrored, but actually painted the characters lives to be moments that could, at any moment, go horribly wrong. |
 | | So that when you come up for breath, and you feel the exhilaration of oxygen filling your lungs, you know it was you who were holding your breath all along and what Jonathan's managed to do against all odds is give you a space to breath in. |
 | | Even calling things "things" was way beyond possibility when Jonathan got done with me. It didn't seem frightening until I put Goldstein's book away and tried to get out of my seat on the subway. |
| www.danforthreview.com /reviews/fiction/goldstein.htm (973 words) |
|