RavePublishers Weekly\"Lispector\'s laconic, almost aphoristic syntax is, at times, full of a brutal sense of humor and at times disquieting ... Lispector is the master of magnifying small, everyday details into epiphanies ... The Complete Stories — more than 80 short stories, covering her entire writing life chronologically — seems to both restitute the form\'s most essential characteristics and open it up to boundless possibilities. Lispector writes, in the most simple and straightforward sense of the term, stories to be told ... Lispector is one of those rare writers who can simply tell a story ... Published by New Directions and translated beautifully and with a vigorous pulse by Katrina Dodson, The Complete Stories is bound to become a kind of bedside Bible or I Ching for readers of Lispector, both old and new. Wherever one opens the book, there is a slice of life to confront.
Alexandra Kleeman
RaveThe New York Times Book Review\"Alexandra Kleeman’s brilliant and disturbing debut novel, You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine, is a fine heir to the tradition inaugurated by Poe, though others will undoubtedly compare her to Pynchon ... a powerful allegory of our civilization’s many maladies, artfully and elegantly articulated, by one of the young wise women of our generation.\
