The Washington Post, May 28th, 1989
TWICE TOLD TALES: Stories By Daniel Stern Paris Review Editions. 173 pp. $18.95 THIS BOOK presents itself as a collection of short stories, but it is more than that. First of all, the six stories in the collection are linked by themes or, most dramatically, by a conceit. This is established by the list of titles-"The Liberal Imagination by Lionel Trilling: a story"; "The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud: a story"; "A Clean Well-Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway: a story"; "Aspects of the Novel by E. M. Forster: a story"; "Brooksmith by Henry James: a story"; "The Psychopathology of Ev...
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