New interview, review and more. . . .



TBA, two author readings in New York City, September 25th in Williamsburg for the Earshot series and November 16th with Susan Shapiro (Five Men Who Broke My Heart) at Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street

Author interview here, from Chicago's Bookish Us.

And a new review, by Marc Schuster, "As haunting as it is gritty, Where I Stay has the feel of an impressionist watercolor . . . Indeed, I hesitate to simply call it a book; its ambitions, beautifully realized, make it a hybrid of textual and visual arts. Like all of my favorite works of art, Where I Stay has the capacity to evoke something akin to an out of body experience, to propel the reader into unfamiliar territory. . . ."

Reviews of "Where I Stay"


Early reviews of Where I Stay have been rolling in. More to come,

Here's Blake Butler at HTML Giant: "Refreshing, pitch-perfect kind of steering that is innovative not only for the genre it might get called into, but for experiential and language-focused texts of every stripe."

click here for the full review. . . .


Sebald scholar Terry Pitts:

"There are a few snapshots of people, none of whom receive the heroic treatment of Walker Evans’ sharecroppers. Only the occasional landscape image offers a possible solace – the open sky, the sunset, the forests that consume the old shacks and abandoned automobiles. . . .

click here for the full review. . . .


Cynthia Reeser, critic at New Pages:

"The movement of people and lives; chance meetings between strangers destined never to cross paths again; moments that can never be recreated; the uncertainty of people, place, relationships – all collide across culture and class, gender and race to form an anthem of displacement. The author deftly – and in spite of himself, seamlessly – weaves common threads that, by the end of the book, form a recognizable whole. Where I Stay is a story of a search for a home, for permanence, and ultimately for meaning."

read the full review. . . .


and, finally, poet Steven Karl at Lovers' Last Go Around:

"Both Peet and Zornoza’s books are examples of not submitting to a status quo in literature, instead they use the traits once synonymous with Wong Kar-wai: originality, vision, risks, and experimentation to give you back this country as it is: flawed, fractured, hypocritical, greedy, beautiful, breathtaking, mesmerizing. . . ."

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