I suspect this will get some year-end kudos.” jeff vandermeer “Stunning short, sharp shocks with insight that reminds me of the very personal work of Clarice Lispector. Packs a wallop into a very small space. I’ve not read anything like it and feel it is quietly subverting the hell out of the form.” Amina Cain These stories appear as much as they engage with narrative, saturated with a calm yet rich color.
DOROTHY NELL WHITE PAGES NEW YORK SERIES
“Reading Vertigo has opened even wider my conceptions of what’s possible in fiction-how a book can be like a series of photographs, like cinema. “This beautifully wrought collection of stories made me think of tiny French cakes laid out in a patisserie: some tart, some sweet, some with a hidden centre, all beautifully constructed and each one exactly its own thing.” stylist “The stories in Vertigo are by turns funny, surreal, modernist, remaining at all times accessible.” the irish times “er stories reveal a psychological landscape lightly spooked by loneliness, jealousy and alienation.” new york times She takes on big ideas-partnership, loneliness, femininity, etc.-through the vibrant minutiae of contemporary experience.” electric literature She’s a flâneur who’s just as capable of representing the exterior and interior wreckage with equal precision. “The stories in Walsh’s Vertigo are equally strange and edgy. The stories are delicate, but they leave a strong impression, a lasting sense of detachment colliding with feeling, a heady destabilization.” los angeles times Each word seems carefully weighed and prodded for sound, taste, touch. Vertigo reads with the exhilarating speed and concentrated force of a poetry collection. “‘Think Renata Adler’s Speedboat with a faster engine. “Supple, floating stories that unfold like memories almost too painful to recall in an affectless voice that can be digressive or disarmingly direct but which is ultimately devastating.” the believer A feat of language.” kirkus reviews, starred review “With wry humor and profound sensitivity, Walsh takes what is mundane and transforms it into something otherworldly with sentences that can make your heart stop. Walsh’s Vertigo may similarly redistribute the possibilities of contemporary fiction, especially if it meets with the wider audience her work demands.” flavorwire, “33 Must Read Books for Fall 2015” This time last year, Dorothy brought us Nell Zink’s The Wallcreeper. “Her writing sways between the tense and the absurd, as if it’s hovering between this world and another. “Beautifully simple and unembellished, Walsh’s writing-most captivating in its ability to unnerve-is cleverly revealing of her protagonist’s unique and sensitive personality.” the guardian
Read a wide-ranging interview with Joanna at The Paris Review, and one specifically about Vertigo at Electric Literature.
Read a story from Vertigo at Electric Literature’s “Recommended Reading,” here. Wry, alien, and intimate, the linked stories in Vertigo take us-with lucid precision-into the negative space of the everyday.
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