A Strange Commonplace
Author Biography

An influential and boldly innovative figure in postmodern American literature, novelist and poet Gilbert Sorrentino was a boyhood friend of the late Hubert Selby, Jr., a student and friend of William Carlos Williams, a two-time PEN/Faulkner award finalist, and the 2005 recipient of the Lannan Literary Lifetime Achievement Award. Once an editor at Grove Press, Sorrentino was Professor Emeritus at Stanford University where he taught writers who included Jeffrey Eugenides and Nicole Krauss. Before his death in May 2006, he had returned to his native Brooklyn where he continued to write fiction of exacting beauty and masterful style, publishing over thirty books of fiction and poetry during his seminal career.

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• The Moon in Its Flight
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