RaveSouthwest Review... a necessary companion to the films and also a study of great detail and devotion that stands on its own, made not only for Anderson devotees but for anyone interested in learning how to gracefully approach an artist’s body of work ... t’s a gorgeous coffee table book, one you could easily just pick up and flip through, admiring film stills and original art, but it’s also a well-researched and thoughtful work of analysis and biography ... this is certainly the most profound and substantial work on Anderson and is likely to remain so for a long time ... the book feels saturated with meaning and intent but it’s also fun.
Karen Russell
PositiveThe Los Angeles Review of Books...shot through with dizzying language ...Never heavy-handed, the stories in Vampires in the Lemon Grove are imbued with notions of grace and redemption. ‘There is a loneliness,’ vampire Clyde tells us, ‘that must be particular to monsters, I think, the feeling that each is the only child of a species.’ The monsters here practice the frail magic of living with a wobbly vivacity, and Russell’s greatest gift is how she awakens them in our minds. While the stories aren’t religious, they overtake you like some mystical tidal wave. Russell’s prose is touched always with pain and wonder, her characters have an uncanny ability to access what Robert Walser called ‘the true truths,’ and her plots are giddy and snap-wicked. On top of that, she’s hell-bent on raucousness.
