Emily Temple, A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book of the Year I am very much looking forward to living inside Orner’s brain (and bookshelf) for a while." Since all writers are also readers, his fans should particularly appreciate this volume of essays and other musings on the writing life, the reading life, and the living life, which are all, of course, inseparable. It’s the perfect choice for anyone who likes books about books.Īnother top-notch collection from the author of Am I Alone Here? Orner-a legitimate triple-threat: novelist, short story master, and prolific essayist-returns with an addictive collection of essays organized around a single day and a wide range of emotions.” Orner delivers fresh insight on nearly every page, and autobiographical elements are pleasingly interwoven with his analysis.
Peter Orner's work clings close to life, to the unadorned, untranscended, dear and haunting Actual. If there’s an ideal autumn book, it’s a book about books, writers and reading by the always undervalued Peter Orner. In each of these micro-essays, he reduces the meat of his own life down to the bone, then stirs in fatty excerpts from hundreds of stories, novels and poems by writers ranging from Woolf to Rhys, Babel to Kafka.Įvocative and erudite, this meditation on impermanence and its ephemeral joys is a gem. Orner is a highly lauded author whose writing, in both fiction and nonfiction, is an act of wizardry.
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