The Pinch

Sentence by sentence, is there a better fictionist alive today, than Steve Stern? His meticulously carved prose is always a joy, knotty with puns, colorful phrasings, good humor, playful syntax and an encyclopedic knowledge of history and lore. I can’t think of another writer who could have written......more

He's a bloody genius.......more

A fantastic (in the adjectival form of the word fantasy) look at the historic district in Memphis called The Pinch, a place where poor immigrants and other disenfranchised souls lived. Steve Stern creates some very interesting characters whose lives in this part of the world intermingle. Multiple lo......more

Loved this book. Saw the author at the Southern Festival of Books, where he said "I am not a serious man." This book is very funny, but it is serious in some really interesting ways. I categorized it as both literary fiction and speculative fiction--I suppose magical realism would be the usual categ......more

The Pinch, a Jewish neighborhood in Memphis that exists, never existed, and will always exist, is also a book describing this neighborhood, contained in Steve Stern's book...The Pinch. The Pinch inside the Pinch (describing The Pinch) is a mystical book overflowing with life, but is described as "to......more