That’s where they belong,” said Patchett.Īt the reading, Pearlman read two selections of her writing, titled “Capers” and “Lineage.” Both had elements of sex, flashbacks and the passage of time in the wake of old age. Put her stories beside those of John Updike and Alice Munro. “Binocular Vision should be the book with which Edith Pearlman casts off her secret- handshake status and takes up her rightful position as a national treasure.

Henry Prize Collection,” “New Stories from the South,” and “The Pushcart Prize Collection,” Pearlman has only recently been adequately attributed in the book’s introduction by Ann Patchett. “Binocular Vision” hasn’t gone without its notably deserved recognition the book graced the cover of the New York Times and Los Angeles Times book reviews and has brought national attention to the previously undisclosed writer.Įven though she has written several critically acclaimed pieces that have landed in the likes of “Best of American Short Stories,” “The O. Pearlman certainly did take the literary world by storm with her intelligently witty and beautiful conceptions of human trial and error and writing inspired selections of short stories that have brought back the lost art. Pearlman’s impression on the Lookout staff was doubtless as Smith couldn’t help but add an impressive quote from an Italian newspaper declaring Pearlman the “writer who astonished America.” The author was introduced by two Lookout Books editors Emily Smith and Ben George, who double as professors in the Department of Creative Writing and editors of Ecotone, a UNCW literary journal. Edith Pearlman’s engaging personality shined last Thursday night as she read selected pieces from her anthology of short stories, collectively titled “Binocular Vision.” The collection is a product of Lookout Books, UNCW’s publishing firm.

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