Lacking Character

The man Paul Auster called "A master of bewitchments" and a founder of the fiction collective returns to the novel after 20 years

In the spirit of "transcendent buffoonery" Curtis White's miraculous return to fiction is fun in the extreme. When a masked man arrives in N—-, Illinois bearing a letter and claiming its contents a matter of life or death, the small town—and the fabric of reality—will never be the same.