Artforum, December 1st, 2006
Bleak Houses Rachel Cusk uncovers the suburban anomie besetting young mothers FRANCINE PROSE ARLINGTON PARK BY RACHEL CUSK NEW YORK: FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX. 256 PAGES. $23.
I've always thought that the most enjoyable literary readings are those rare events at which writers are invited to read aloud from the work of their fellows. How sweet it seems, how purely well intentioned it feels, to stand at a podium and stump tor literature without hearing the distracting hoofbeats of the four horsemen of the self: self-display, self-regard, self-admiration, and (last hut certainly not least) sel...
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