10 Membranes

Literary Fiction

Not in the mood at all for literary fiction or any kind of ornament or frivolity I pick up the proof of the latest Lorrie Moore with trepidation and despair: arch literary, arch boredom and irrelevance.

I am so ready to resent and dislike this novel on so many levels. I want to hate it.

So I start. With every word I was so looking for a fault and a note of discord.

Have I been proved wrong. It just left me in awe - not a word or comma or sentiment placed incorrectly, my faith in literary fiction fully restored in one paragraph of utterly, heart-breakingly heart-warmingly human yet transcendental writing.

God I wish I could write like Lorrie Moore. Extraordinary, inrcredible, pitch perfect.