Greg Cwik
Greg Cwik is a contributor to the Brooklyn Rail.
TALK TALK
By Greg CwikWilliam Gaddis was one of the 20th century’s most acerbic writers of dialogue, a novelist who, from simple words and serpentine sentences, evinced the mendacity of the current zeitgeist in four different decades.
The Pure Present: Ben Lerner’s The Topeka School
By Greg CwikBen Lerner belongs to a rarefied cadre of writer: the poet-novelist. His sedulous understanding of poetry informs the language of his prose, which is beautiful and complicated but never lapses into gaudy braggadocio; it is empathetic, intellectual without being masturbatory, anxious yet assured, a deft coalescence of memoirish self-vivisection and critical commentary.
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