Heard-Hoard Reviewed in WORLD LITERATURE TODAY! Julian Gewirtz writes: "In these pages, Riley creates a uniquely American idiom—expressive, earthy, and flat-out dazzling—that will slake and succor readers for many years to come."

Julian Gewirtz reviews Heard-Hoard in World Literature Today:

https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2022/january/heard-hoard-atsuro-riley➠➠

“In these pages, Riley creates a uniquely American idiom—expressive, earthy, and flat-out dazzling—that will slake and succor readers for many years to come.”

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“Heard-Hoard contains many examples of wicked desires and violent compulsions—from angry gangs of runaway children to a tormented former prisoner of war—but the “story-man” represents a way of being together that satisfies our deepest “appetites” and makes room for our “souls.”

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“Riley is like a painter who increasingly allows color, form, and texture to be his guide, as he becomes less concerned with making the subject or the narrative explicit to the viewer and more interested in creating universal sensory, emotional, and philosophical effects.”

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“The stakes here are extraordinarily high: salvation, protection, soul-fashioning. . .”

atsuro riley

Heard-Hoard Reviewed in WORLD LITERATURE TODAY! Julian Gewirtz writes: “In these pages, Riley creates a uniquely American idiom—expressive, earthy, and flat-out dazzling—that will slake and succor readers for many years to come.”