The Society of North American Magic Realists welcomes its newest, most dazzling member, Louis Maistros. His debut novel is a thing of wonder, unlike anything in our literature. It startles. It stuns. It stupefies. No novel since CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES has done such justice to New Orleans. If Franz Kafka had been able to write like Peter Straub, this might have been the result.
Someone in Ireland asked me how many Republican poets there were in the U. S. , and I thought maybe two. Maybe there are 10,000 poets, and maybe there are two Republicans among them.