Reviewers at the NY times have admitted their mistaken reading of Warren Wilson faculty member Patrick Somerville‘s novel This Bright River. Patrick recently wrote about his experience for Salon:
Last Sunday night I spent a good five minutes lying facedown on my couch, my head pressed into the crack between our old tan cushions, my arms pinned awkwardly under my chest, emitting a sequence of guttural moaning noises as my wife silently read Janet Maslin’s newly posted New York Times review of my novel, “This Bright River,” and then – after some gasps and one very disconcerting, empathy-laden, “Oh no” – attempted to describe the review’s contents aloud. I’d only been able to read the headline...[Keep Reading]…
You can also read the article at The Atlantic Wire.