I am not jackson pollock
These are stunningly sophisticated stories in which everything is new: Seeing the world, and history, and real characters through the decisive lens of a single emotion feels like swimming in an enormous ocean filled with new ways of understanding events and people. With stylistic simplicity and narrative verve, Haskell uncovers the more fascinating, empathic fiction underneath all nonfiction. He is one of those rare authors who makes language seem limitless in its possibilities.
THE BUFFALO NEWS
Haskell’s stories do what David Foster Wallace said fiction must do, and which Wallace’s own writing—peerlessly—did do: “to give the reader, who like all of us is sort of marooned in her own skull, to give her imaginative access to other selves.”
WYATT MASON, HARPER’S
