Latest Book by Brock Clarke Sparks Great Reviews
Glowing reviews are spreading like wildfire for the fourth book by Brock Clarke, associate professor of English.
In a New York Times review, Janet Maslin finds Clarke's "An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England" to be "sharp-edged and unpredictable, punctuated by moments of choice absurdist humor." She writes, "Mr. Clarke sets... part of the book in bleakest New Hampshire.... This frozen setting also allows him to express a long-smoldering schoolboy hatred of Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome."
The New York Times review also features a portrait of Clarke taken by McMicken's own Jon Hughes, professor and director of the Journalism Program in the Department of English and Comparative Literature.
Clarke, a two-time finalist for the National Magazine Award prize for fiction, is also the author of story collections "What We Won't Do" and "Carrying the Torch" and his debut novel, "The Ordinary White Boy."
Read his original essay about Arsonist's Guide, written for Powell's Books.
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