Adrian Tomine

"Worth reading just for Tomine's eloquent restraint and literary leanings"--The Boston Phoenix.

And Other Stories

Sleepwalk

Pranav Mutatkar

I liked summer blonde a bit better altho there are some great stories here. 

It's more this is a mixed bag. Refer to my Summer Blonde review.

More than anything it's interesting to see what stories you can tell extremely quickly. I've always been interested in the Hemmingway, "For sale: baby shoes. Never worn." idea. That stories are often most potent in extremely short fiction. 

It also shows my increasing interest in aphorisms (ala La Rochefoucauld). This is one of the hardest things to do. The comedy statement is already very hard and I love them so much. But the poignant sentences. The one or two sentences devastators those are incredibly fascinating to me. 

Tomine almost gets there with some of these. I think he isn't there yet, however. 

Lunch break and Hazel Eyes get very close. Dyland and Donovan has interesting ideas. So does the Supermarket and Pink Frosting. 

The problem with this is you can tell he is still finding himself which leads many of these to have the response: What's the point? 

Obviously, this is subjective and I'm curious what takes a what's the point --> Poignant.

Sleepwalk And Other Stories

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