* Vogue * There's still plenty in Evening in Paradise to conjure the original thrill of reading Berlin. It is in how Berlin transformed her life into art that is as vital as the thing itself. The mystery of her fiction is not, it turns out, in the source of its inspiration. these new volumes become a jigsaw-puzzle portrait of a long-neglected literary legend, baring the autobiographical material that filtered so forcefully into her fiction. * Los Angeles Times * Long before the current autofiction craze, Lucia Berlin was spinning her day-to-day into powerfully spare prose that ached with brutal authenticity. Time and again, the stories reveal that her subject wasn't domestic life but life itself, which for her often happened to be filtered through the domestic. * San Francisco Chronicle * reveals just how full a body of rich work Berlin left behind. * Boston Globe * What molds the fiction is Berlin's artistic sensibility ? her global perspective, the shrewd compassion with which she scrutinizes her characters, and the absurdity ? not to mention the flora ? that populates the many landscapes of her world. Like Chekhov, Berlin was a beautiful framer of stories. In part because they make it clear Berlin's gifts were vast, complex, and full of tonal warmths. * NYLON * This never-before-published memoir and new collection are cause for jubilation. the cunning, beautiful creation of a genius of the form.
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