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Meg's characters float through this world looking to reach out, but always somehow not quite getting the hang of it. This would be very sad if Pokgrass weren't also one of the funniest writers around. Then there are a few points in DSR where she gets the exact right balance of humor and pathos to grasp something bigger than me, you, or any of her characters. I'm talking about stories like "Pounds Across America" and "Them" that do that Chekhovian thing at the end where, just for a moment, everyt...
A master of flash, Pokrass never fails to excite with this collection. These stories always deliver - a huge punch.
as it's got 0 pages i might read this pretty quickly
There is a lot to learn from here--some very tight endings. Subtle details of character that do a lot of work.
Brilliant, brilliant stuff!
am going to write a longer review of this for something, somewhere. will holler back. (it's just too good not to and i want to make a list of my favorite stories/lines.) but quickly i will say that this book kinda made me feel like i was eating...like in a good way. devouring something delicious. and i'll also say that i love her ability to create these little stories...these snowglobes packed and packed with so many perfect little intimate details...insular...exciting and surprising. these stor...
Damn sure good. Whiskey made of blood, cut with crushed thigh slap. It glow. IF you are serious about flash, read this book.
Amazing little stories. The writing is inspiring, and inspired. These flash pieces will draw you in with an image, make you laugh with a turn of phrase, and then rip your heart out with a killer last line. Like really good dark chocolate, they're best savored in small bites, but I dare you to take just one.
Meg Pokrass is the best flash fiction writer on the planet. No one comes close. This volume is a must read for any lover of short fiction.
Meg Pokrass is the queen of flash fiction. Her stories are fresh, original, never clichéd, loaded with quiet symbolism that increases in significance on rereading. At her best, Meg has the uncanny ability to make you feel you've read a complete novel or memoir in a few hundred words. Some of her stories seem too lightweight to matter, but more often she nails an emotion, a mood, a character flaw, even a life, with startling pinpoint accuracy. Her stories "begin in the middle," as a character tal...
Pow! It's Meg Pokrass Flash Fiction!DAMN SURE RIGHT is a collection of quickies that are better designed moments of fiction than most writers spend pages and pages developing. Each of this at times single page stories, at times 2-3 page stories find a fascinating little detail to explore, a snatch of a story told with carved sentences that create atmosphere not unlike those little snow scenes you shake and watch your own story develop until the mechanical snow settles at the bottom. A lot of the...
Damn Sure Great. Truly. Pokrass has solidified her status as one of the best flash fiction writers around. It's a voluminous volume, about 100 flash stories, and I was continually astounded by their originality. I kept asking myself, how could so many different stories exist in one head? I love that they don't all have the same voice, either. She is able to match her writing to her characters. And many of the stories contain some of the best lines I've ever read in contemporary fiction. Hard-hit...
I would recommend this book to just about anyone... The short fiction snipits in this book are moving, depressing, provacative, and often times abstract. The author vividly deomonstrates her characters' thoughts and actions in such an interesting and luring way. She does an excellent job of explaining the thoughts behind awkward situations and ups and downs that people go through in life. This is a fiction book but all these stories can very well be "real." I was slightly skeptical when I began
I just finished reading "Damn Sure Right," by Meg Pokrass--as is my habit, drawn from a tottering column of books on my night table, including something by Shirley Jackson and an abridged version of Robert Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy." Her stories are sheer delight etched on the page in crisp prose, snippets of sometimes poignant, sometimes painful reality expertly spliced together to elicit hilarity, hiccups, hijinx, healing and a frenetic enlightenment, i.e. wisdom with a giggle.
I just finished reading "Damn Sure Right," by Meg Pokrass--as is my habit, drawn from a tottering column of books on my night table, including something by Shirley Jackson and an abridged version of Robert Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy." Her stories are sheer delight etched on the page in crisp prose, snippets of sometimes poignant, sometimes painful reality expertly spliced together to elicit hilarity, hiccups, hijinx, healing and a frenetic enlightenment, i.e. wisdom with a giggle.
it is a common conceit, this whole life, flashing before your eyes...when in fact it's a partial life that borrows heavily. the best flash fiction knows this. I've heard it leveled at, or lobbed in the vicinity of, flash fiction that anyone can do it. Pokrass makes one think that only one person can do it, and that the person in question, is. great book.
See my review at Books at Fictionaut, 2012.
I really dig this book. Press 53 is pretty solid.
This book is perfect.
Meg Pokrass is a master of flash fiction. Her insight is remarkably dead on and she imparts her understanding in spare, compelling prose.
