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Elizabeth Bales Frank

A Review of The Physics of Sorrow by Georgi Gospodinov

August 20, 2015

Elizabeth Bales Frank

Translated from the Bulgarian by Angela Rodel (Rochester, NY: Open Letter, 2015) The unnamed narrator of Georgi Gospodinov’s inventive, ambitious novel The Physics of Sorrow suffers from “pathological empathy or obsessive empathetic-somatic syndrome,” most acutely in his childhood.  “Over the years … Continued

A Review of Going Anywhere by David Armstrong

January 22, 2015

Elizabeth Bales Frank

(Fredonia, NY: Leapfrog Press, 2014) The characters in David Armstrong’s story collection “Going Anywhere” live in the darkness on the edge of town.  Fractured by loss—aimless infidelities, deflated ambition, damaged or absent children—they limp through landscapes rural but not pastoral, … Continued

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