Nominal Cases

Fiction. Like his literary antecedents–John Barth and Jorge Luis Borges both haunt these pages–Thomas Cotsonas takes (and offers) great pleasure in the revelation that the central (though often occult) subject of fiction is always inevitably fictiveness itself. But clever and self-aware as these fictions are, they are also fully alive to the cathartic power of narrative, and the potential for a well-drawn character to show us something human, true, and surprising. NOMINAL CASES thrills both mind and heart–a rare delight.–Joel Brouwer