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SF/LD author, Mary Miller, on today’s Tin House Flash Friday

He sets our plates on the table and sits across from me. I eat alone so much I feel like we should pray. Have you ever loved someone as much as they’ve loved you? I ask, a precedent for this line of questioning already established.

Not even close, he says.

Me either.

Greenfeld is attuned to the fleeting details of cultural fashion: of speech, dress and mores that are the weft of character. His TriBeCa husbands and wives and their children play out their biological and vocational destinies within a precise historical moment. Smug and insular as they are, intimations of the financial crisis start to reach them, like thunder rumbling across the river from New Jersey; empty storefronts appear, and, horror of horrors, their lofts start losing value. It’s a mark of Greenfeld’s talent and the complexity he brings to their portraits that we almost feel sorry for them.

Short Flight / Long Drive author, Karl Taro Greenfeld, gets his new one, Triburbia, kindly reviewed in the NYTBR by Jay McInerney!!