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CURRENT READING: RESCUE MISSIONS: FREDERICK BUSCH

The  Gallimard cover of this beautiful body of work illustrates the impact Busch's fiction has had  internationallyThe Gallimard cover of this beautiful body of work illustrates the impact Busch's fiction has had internationally

Shortly before he in died in 2006, the novelist and essayist, Frederick Busch described what would turn out to be his final book, as stories, " about people embarking on physical journeys to help out loved ones, former lovers, children, parents.” Busch's oevure is distinctly the exploration of the contemporary American landscape : his characters live in trailers in Syracuse supermarket parking lots, linger in the psychiatric units of hospitals and drift listlessly in Utica New York train stations. Upstate New York as the ennui drenched backdrop for these great American short stories, take on an identity where hopelessness curdles into dread and given the great pivotal political landscape this country currently weathers, Busch's perspective on the landscape of dwindling dreams feels like prophecy appropriated by poetry.I chose the French Gallimard cover of this beautiful body of work to illustrate the post because it signals the impact Busch's American vision has had internationally. Plus all those Gallimard covers are a form of literray design genius.

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