“Under the Suns of a Million Everests...is mesmerizing. Wonderful writing and material.”

--Storyquarterly

 

“The Watch has a persuasive narrative voice similar to John Banville and Paul Auster.”

--New Writing

 

“Dim Conflagration is a sly review and the only piece I've seen that describes what it's really like to read Nabokov.”

--The King's English

 

I glimpsed the doomed party as we returned from the summit: they became visible through the sheeting snow, a chain of trekkers in a blinding field making faint progress. A row of ants. I thought how we must look like this to them--if they were going in our direction. But of course, you don’t look back from where you came when everything is looking up. They were stuffed in their boots and lost in their heads, just like us. Moving forward. Facing oblivion.

"Under the Suns of a Million Everests"

The Antioch Review Winter 2012