Publishers Weekly, October 4th, 1999
Daniel Stern, Southern Methodist Univ., $19.95 (224p) ISBN 0-87074-445-3 In some respects, Stern is a writer's writer: his impeccably crafted stories gracefully incorporate literary references and demonstrate a reverence for language and the arts. As in two previous volumes (Twice Told Tales and Twice Upon a Time), these seven short fictions "reflect the inspiring passions and concepts" of specific poems and stories by Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Borges and Yeats. Each of these middle-aged protagonists is a Jewish New Yorker, though some live in exile (in the Midwest, the South, etc.) from...
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