“Greg Gerke is a short form wizard; dark, funny and seriously sly. His book will deliver you to new strange thought and feeling.”<\/div>\n
-Sam Lipsyte, author of The Ask<\/em><\/p>\n“In this remarkable series of ruefully funny and insightful bursts, Greg Gerke manages to reorder the mundanity of alienation into something urgent and vital.\u201d<\/p>\n
-Sergio De La Pava, author of\u00a0A Naked Singularity<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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“If you put Lydia Davis, Etgar Keret and Philip Roth’s Portnoy in a blender\u00a0you might \u00a0get Greg Gerke’s quirkily neurotic, hilariously honest voice\u00a0in “My Brooklyn Writer Friend.” All the writing about writing probably won’t play\u00a0in Peoria, but \u00a0luckily he lives in Brooklyn, \u00a0believes in truth in advertising \u00a0and his very short stories are weird and\u00a0wildly engaging. “<\/div>\n
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– Susan Shapiro, author of
Lighting Up<\/em> and What’s Never Said<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n“How is it that Greg Gerke\u2019s short fiction collection makes dislocation, miscommunication, and the anxious knots of the mind seem absolutely worthwhile and even kind of fun? Friends, sort-of-friends, lovers and sort-of-lovers tangle with the loneliness of being apart\/together. Get prepared for a writer who wonderfully navigates bumbling, ordinary life with smart, sharp writing and a big dose of compassion.”<\/p>\n
– Victoria Redel, author of Make Me Do Things<\/em><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/div>\n
“These swift, swervy, nervous fictions–as often as not about writers in antic crisis with the language, lovers in trouble with their loves–are heartachingly hilarious and stocked from margin to margin with agony-born brilliances fresh and revitalizing. Greg Gerke’s endearingly self-questioning narrators worry their doubts into a make-do grace that leaves a reader sweetened too.<\/span><\/span>“<\/div>\n– Gary Lutz,\u00a0author of Stories in the Worst Way<\/i><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/div>\n
“A Duchampian travelogue about the nature of how we read and\u00a0construct the stories, MY BROOKLYN WRITER FRIEND, is as compelling as entertaining.\u00a0 The six interlocking sections present comedic aspects of the American\u00a0landscape we take for granted, and at the same time challenge our received ideas about the places we visit. As quickly as the writers in the book build the scaffolding of their ideas, others\u00a0endeavor to shift the architecture.\u00a0 The result is a series of brilliant roller coaster rides that demand to be revisited many times over. “<\/div>\n
– Susan Daitch,\u00a0author of Paper Conspiracies<\/i><\/p>\n
“Greg Gerke writes like an anthropologist of love, or like a
Brooklyn-based Sigmund Freud, walking down a mobius boulevard, finding\u00a0the truth as it flowers in the cracks of the sidewalk. Honest, deadpan,\u00a0personal and smart, these stories conspire, like a dream, to create a\u00a0world both uncanny and familiar, delirious and quotidian, funny and sad\u00a0and completely mesmerizing.”<\/p>\n
– John Haskell, author of\u00a0I am Not Jackson Pollock<\/i> and American Purgatorio<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n
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