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A review by ben_miller
Stories in the Worst Way by Garielle Lutz
3.0
Lutz is a magician with verbs; creating new ones, using old ones in unexpected ways, etc. He tries mightily to do the same with adjectives and adverbs, which I found more often annoying than impressive, but still, there's probably not more than a handful of sentences in this book that you could find anywhere else.
As for plots, characters, emotional resonance, look elsewhere. Lutz isn't interested in that stuff. These are stories in the worst way, and in the loosest sense of the word - objects made of language. Lutz perhaps sums it up himself at one point: "...page after page of permutational wordliness that struck me as overpostponed progress toward a second, fuller language." Fine by me.
As for plots, characters, emotional resonance, look elsewhere. Lutz isn't interested in that stuff. These are stories in the worst way, and in the loosest sense of the word - objects made of language. Lutz perhaps sums it up himself at one point: "...page after page of permutational wordliness that struck me as overpostponed progress toward a second, fuller language." Fine by me.