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From Voyage of the Sable Venus<\/i>.<\/p><\/div>\n

In place of our usual staff picks this week, we\u2019ve asked five contributors from our new Winter issue<\/a> to recommend their favorite books of the year.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

I once sat on a loveseat for several nights in a row, watching a multipart PBS documentary on emotions. What I recall most vividly from this documentary is an experiment conducted on Jason, a young man with Asperger\u2019s syndrome. As he watched a movie, Jason wore a pair of special glasses that allowed researchers to see exactly what he was looking at on the screen. In this way, they could see how Jason processed visual data, and how he created a kind of hierarchy of significance. One scene featured a dramatic and emotional encounter in the foreground\u2014a man and woman, I think, embracing, kissing, whispering endearments\u2014but Jason, as it turns out, was watching the very interesting chandelier in the background. I don\u2019t mean to hard-heartedly ignore or make light of what the experiment reveals about Asperger\u2019s syndrome, but it strikes me that there is an apt analogy here to fiction.\u00a0This is what good writers do\u2014come at drama indirectly, reverse foreground and background, disrupt conventional priorities, focus on and draw our attention to the \u201cwrong\u201d data.\u00a0I was reminded of the chandelier when reading the remarkable stories in Robin McLean\u2019s collection,\u00a0Reptile House<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0There is no shortage of mayhem and menace in these stories, but they achieve a thrilling and disorienting power by refusing to pay commensurate attention to the life-and-death troubles of people. McLean does not shrink the world down to interpersonal conflict, but instead opens it up to achieve a cosmic perspective that somehow feels both dispassionate and compassionate (Chekhov\u2019s trick). This opening up is wild, surprising, and not a little frightening. I suppose you could call these stories dark, but in their dazzling perspective I find them full of vitality and wonder. \u2014Chris Bachelder<\/strong> (The Throwback Special<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n

I treasure Oliver Sacks\u2019s little book Gratitude<\/a><\/em>. For him to have written these four compassionate essays while tumors were metastasizing throughout his aged body seems to me an astonishing act by a \u2018sentient being, a thinking animal.\u2019 I give thanks for Sacks\u2019s unique life and for all the inquisitive books he wrote while caring for the mistreated and the marginalized. \u2014Henri Cole <\/strong>(Five Poems<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n

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From A Manual for Cleaning Women<\/i>.<\/p><\/div>\n

Over the past year, I have read several new or newish books that impressed me for different reasons: Anne Carson\u2019s formally delightful\u00a0Short Talks<\/em>; Roz Chast\u2019s\u00a0Can\u2019t We Talk About Something More Pleasant<\/em>, which kept capturing so precisely and hilariously certain familiar, miserable, touching interactions; the Swiss writer Peter Bichsel\u2019s\u00a0Mit Freundlichen Gr<\/em>\u00fc<\/em>ssen<\/em>, a slim book of lovely, thoughtful stories from real life. But the writer I have been waiting for decades to see receive the kind of high recognition she deserves is now represented by a wonderful new selection of stories: Lucia Berlin\u2019s\u00a0A Manual for Cleaning Women<\/a><\/em>\u00a0is admirable for its wit, adeptness, compassion, honesty, and humanity. \u2014Lydia Davis <\/strong>(After Reading Peter Bichsel<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n

Atticus Lish\u2019s extraordinary ear for dialogue, his photo-realistic description of New York City streets that never appear in fiction, would be enough to make Preparation for the Next Life<\/a><\/em> my favorite book that appeared this year. But it\u2019s the author\u2019s empathy for people living on the edge of what is physically and emotionally bearable that truly distinguishes the novel. A soldier brutalized by what he believed was his duty meets a stateless migrant with a fierce will to survive\u2014what love story could possibly say more about America\u2019s responsibilities in the world today? \u2014Nell Freudenberger <\/strong>(Found Objects<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n

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From Preparation for the Next Life<\/i>.<\/p><\/div>\n

When Robin Coste Lewis was writing \u201cVoyage of the Sable Venus\u201d\u2014the core, the poem at the heart of her book Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems<\/a><\/em>\u2014on Wednesday nights she would bring a new section to the table on West Tenth Street, at NYU\u2019s Graduate Program in Creative Writing, and, when it was her turn among the twelve poets in the workshop, she would hold the pile of copies of the draft and first read it to us, then pass it to the poet next to her, who would read it to us and to Robin, then the copies would come around the table and we would see it. It was a new sun, rising\u2014and facing, across the sky, a new full moon, a mirror. In these brilliant, terrifying, gorgeous, essential poems, our species is seeing itself as if for the first time\u2014for one of the first times which art, over the years, gives us, the times which make up the story of human seeing, knowing, and slowly transforming. Then we would speak, greet the new being\u2014and then in turn Robin would hear, and respond to, in her generous, smart, deep, warm way, her poem\u2019s fellow and fellow poems brought to the table that day. \u2014Sharon Olds <\/strong>(Two Poems<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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