Across My Big Brass Bed — Gary Amdahl

"Amdahl is one whose gifts are staggering and hard won. The stories relate, by the way of guts through grace, the wholeness of a novel too good for philosophy. Gary Amdahl knows sports, men, women, and dogs, thank God, so thoroughly as to make them myth. Camus comes to mind, thought with great muscle." --Barry Hannah "Gary Amdahl is a language-obsessive with a dead-on feel for the almost bodily pulsations of sense-making, what Robert Frost called "sentence sounds," the shapes that uncannily anticipate the meanings we fill them with. He is, to boot, a free-wheeling-a whirling-diviner of associations. When the prose is on you don't need a night-light." --Sven Birkerts