Monday, August 07, 2006
New York Times book review of 'All Things All at Once'
Meg Wolitzer know's what's up. Not the stellar review that I think Dad wanted, but this is a damn favorable review nonetheless. Let's hope it lands dad a gig on Oprah soon, yeah?
Thursday, July 27, 2006
For their first birthday.
This is one of the twins, Vasco or Finnegan, looking at his fist birthday present. I just love this photo. Edward took it. He's got a great sense of humor. His kids already have their own personalities. Olga - Edward's wife - is a hoot too. I can't wait until they start talking so that we can all laugh and know it was at the same joke.
Friday, July 21, 2006
Two immensely satisfying collections filled with yearning, stinging with ache - baltimoresun.com
Baltimore Sun says dad's latest collection is "immensely satisfying." Naturally, I agree.Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Lightning in a bottle - kga245's Journal - Last.fm
Ever since Scotty left town, I've been craving Waits. Until a monht ago, I didn't think Steph knew I had a Waits-shaped void. Scotty left me with a 4-CD mix that I'd been listening to in the car for a year. Then to my surprise, when I started my new gig running Dandelife.com she bought me his VH! Storytellers 2-disc set. I was beside myself. Really. She was too thoughtful. It his all the right buttons. That's why I love her.Tuesday, July 18, 2006
The Columbus Dispatch - Life / Arts
Another favorable review for dad. This time from a source close to home. Well it's not altogether favorable. Seems the critic didn't have much of an appreciation for dad's lack of variety in the basic make-up of his characters. I would beg to differ, but I'm biased. And I happen to like stories about the same old fools. Reminds me of myself.Sunday, July 16, 2006
Dad makes the UT's Summer Reading List
Dad got reviewed in the San Diego Union Tribune last week. Here's what the reviewer had to say:I gave Lee K. Abbott's “All Things at Once” (Norton, $26.95) the open-to-a-story-at-random test. The first line in “Gravity”: “They grab her – Tanya, my fourteen year-old daughter – early in the afternoon from the sidewalk outside the north entrance to J.C. Penney's at the Mimbres Valley Mall.” What follows is a full-throttle, foreshortened, sandblasted tale of disassociation and heartbreak set in a sere and superficially serene New Mexico town. A lesser writer would've made it a novel.
Dive right in! | The San Diego Union-Tribune
Pops in the Dallas Morning News
read the full reivew here:"Picking up one of Mr. Abbott's stories is like stepping into a rushing stream. Before you know it, you've been thrown up on the bank in a place you never anticipated, because you, like his characters, felt you knew what was happening, and that you had control. In his stories, no one ever does, not really. People go crazy as they obsess about war and sex and death and UFOs, among other things."
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
my office
Today I decided that I would work for a few hours from the top of the building. It was a hot day so the breeze was doing me some good. Being of the sedentary dot-com start-up variety, taking my shirt off at the pool was as much adventure as I can could handle for the day. Still beats a day at the office though.
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
JS Online:Masterful collection taps into the heart of modern man
Another favorable review about my pop's new book.
"Come read some painstaking prose about real people. I promise you won't hate yourself in the morning."
JS Online:Masterful collection taps into the heart of modern man:
Books & Literature | 'All Things, All at Once: New and Selected Stories' by Lee K. Abbott
Another good review of dad's latest. I like this turn of phrase by the author of the review, John Freeman."In six previous collections, the New Mexico-based writer has stuffed as many semicolons as he could fit into a sentence, strapped them to no-luck narrators and explored what happens when you add a little whiskey. "
Books & Literature | 'All Things, All at Once: New and Selected Stories' by Lee K. Abbott:
