· Reading Laura van den Berg’s eerie short story collection I Hold a Wolf by the Ears is chilling—but not in the way you’d expect. Rather than emphasize otherworldly creatures or the heightened unreality of horror, the collection reveals that the underpinnings of everyday life can be more unsettling than your favorite thriller. Steeped in the . · “I Hold a Wolf by the Ears” is the author’s third collection, and she has two novels as well — the latest, “The Third Hotel,” a humdinger — and this book offers the greatest Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. An urgent and unsettling collection of women on the verge from Laura van den Berg, author of The Third Hotel. I Hold a Wolf by the Ears, Laura van den Berg’s first story collection since her acclaimed and prizewinning Isle of Youth, draws readers into a world of wholly original, sideways ghost stories. I Hold a Wolf by the Ears is uncannily attuned to our current moment, and to the thoughts we reveal to no .
Laura van den Berg is the author of the story collections What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, The Isle of Youth, and I Hold a Wolf by the Ears, and the novels Find Me and The Third Hotel, which was a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award and an Indie Next pick, and was named one of the best. Laura van den Berg was born and raised in Florida. Her most recent collection of stories, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears, was published by FSG in July and named a "best summer read" by The New York Times, Time Magazine, Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, and Entertainment Weekly, among others. She is the author of two previous collections, The Isle of Youth (FSG, ) and What the World Will Look. The stories in Laura van den Berg's latest collection, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears, are variations on a theme, typically containing: a young to middle-aged woman as protagonist; the loss of a child, parent or sibling; terse relationships with siblings, spouses, or in-laws; foreign travel (with safety-rails-on); gig-work and/or side hustle, ranging from the normal (pet photographer) to the.
For Laura Van Den Berg, Modern Life is Scary Enough. The 'I Hold A Wolf By The Ears' author on returning to short stories, the loneliness of the human condition, and creating in quarantine. “I Hold a Wolf by the Ears” is the author’s third collection, and she has two novels as well — the latest, “The Third Hotel,” a humdinger — and this book offers the greatest. Laura van den Berg’s third story collection, ‘I Hold a Wolf by the Ears,’ is teeming with tattered souls trying to keep themselves together as the anxieties, griefs, and fears that have become all too familiar are writ large across these eleven stories. With a cutting sense of humor and admirably polished storytelling, van den Berg brings the women in her stories to life in ways that may be surreal and surprising but always astutely human in their struggles.
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