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Gilbert Sorrentino, Part I

Having returned to his native Brooklyn after a more than 20 years in California, Gilbert Sorrentino's new books span the continent with an unrelenting experimental style...

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By Michael Silverblatt • Oct 31, 2002 • 30m Listen

Little Casino (Coffee House Press);

Gold Fools

(Green Integer Books)

Having recently returned to his native Brooklyn after a more than twenty year stint in California, Sorrentino-s new books span the continent with an unrelenting experimental style and a relentless project: to dig out nuggets of accuracy from the morass of banality and cliché.

Listen to Part II.

Read an excerpt from Little Casino.

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    Michael Silverblatt

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