These three stories are guaranteed to entertain, provoke, and delight readers.
Author of 24 novels, Cassill has affected the lives of many through his writing and his teaching at Iowa, Columbia, Harvard and Brown. In his book Writing Fiction, Cassill states that "Writing is a way of coming to terms with the world and with oneself. The whole spirit of writing is to overcome narrowness and fear by giving order, measure, and significance to the flux of experience constantly dinning into our lives. Out of that din come fear of ignorance, fear of being alone, fear of dying without having defied the brutal indifference of the physical universe. Everyone who writes makes some attempt to face those fears by the very act of writing as best he can."
“Mr. Cassill writes with whirling energy and explosive metaphorical shiftiness. His style is perpetually inventive; one reads with the joyful sense of something being continually created under one’s eyes.” —New York Review of Books
These three stories are guaranteed to entertain, provoke, and delight readers.
Author of 24 novels, Cassill has affected the lives of many through his writing and his teaching at Iowa, Columbia, Harvard and Brown. In his book Writing Fiction, Cassill states that "Writing is a way of coming to terms with the world and with oneself. The whole spirit of writing is to overcome narrowness and fear by giving order, measure, and significance to the flux of experience constantly dinning into our lives. Out of that din come fear of ignorance, fear of being alone, fear of dying without having defied the brutal indifference of the physical universe. Everyone who writes makes some attempt to face those fears by the very act of writing as best he can."
“Mr. Cassill writes with whirling energy and explosive metaphorical shiftiness. His style is perpetually inventive; one reads with the joyful sense of something being continually created under one’s eyes.” —New York Review of Books