Stephen Florida by Gabe Habash

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Sometimes I think that the highest artistic value is freedom. This book embodies narrative freedom to a great degree. What I’m saying is, we get a better sense of Stephen as a person because Gabe Habash is willing to end a sentence, put in a section break, and start a new sentence about something we’ve never heard of before and he’ll never mention again, than if he followed that sometimes-spoken rule that every section needs to have some immediately obvious reason for existing.

Writing like this gives me hope. There’s somebody out there who knows how to slacken the threads and not just tighten them. And his name is Gabe Habash.



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