Saint Sebastian's Abyss

This little gem is the follow up to Mark Haber's outstanding debut, Reinhardt's Garden. Saint Sebastian's Abyss is humor at its most droll, focusing on a love-hate rivalry between two art critics. There is a lot here about the nature of art, criticism, and friendship, although the sly humor outshine......more

This smart and hilarious short novel tells the story of two frenemies who, as art critics, try to replace life by art while denying the communicative and social nature of creative human expression. The unnamed narrator befriends his companion-turned-opponent Schmidt at Oxford, where the two re-disco......more

The two lesser paintings that survived the Great Stockholm Fire were untitled. At first Schmidt and I referred to these works as the two lesser works that we try not to talk about simply because we did not, in any way, relish talking about them. Later we began calling the two untitled paintings the......more

I loved this book with all my craven heart. Funny and insightful and weird and dark.......more