Robert Gluck

2 months ago | denvergazette.com | Marianne Goodland |Robert Gluck

The Code of Federal Regulations, which publishes notices on government action, has published a list of almost 2,600 programs the Trump administration will review to ensure they do not "advance Marxist equity, transgenderism and Green New Deal social engineering policies." On Monday, the federal Office of Management and Budget ordered a freeze on all government spending, some $3 trillion, in the wake of an executive order to block spending on green new deal and programs identified with...

Nov 14, 2023 | entertainment-mag.com | Robert Gluck

Glückwrites through digression, in conversation with the inevitable and the unknown at once. This is a stylistic choice, but also a method of opening up the text: Each paragraph becomes a living, growing thing, pushing in all directions. It’s a key feature of the irreverent school of writing that came to be known as New Narrative, founded by Glück and his friend Bruce Boone in the late 1970s.

Nov 14, 2023 | nytimes.com | Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore |Robert Gluck

ABOUT ED, by Robert Glück“I started this book two decades ago,” Robert Glück tells us in his new novel, “About Ed,” “so now it has turned into a ritual to prepare for death, and an obsession to put between death and myself.” The book recounts his relationship with the artist Ed Aulerich-Sugai, Glück’s lover for most of the 1970s and a close friend until Ed’s death from AIDS in 1994.

Oct 30, 2023 | theparisreview.org | Robert Gluck

By Robert Glück October 30, 2023 In an interview in our Fall issue, Robert Glück told Lucy Ives, “I think about the workshops I ran at Small Press Traffic in the seventies and eighties, how reading became a part of writing. We were reading our lives and living our fictions.” We asked Glück—whose free community workshops spearheaded the New Narrative movement in San Francisco—for a syllabus from one of his former classes.

Oct 30, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Maurice Carlos Ruffin |Victor Heringer |Anne Michaels |Robert Gluck

Maurice Carlos Ruffin. One World, $28 (284p) ISBN 978-0-593-72939-7Ruffin (The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You) sets his notable latest in pre–Civil War New Orleans, where an enslaved girl joins a secret resistance movement run by women. Ady is raised by her mother, Sanite, who came of age in a runaway settlement deep in the forests and swamps of Louisiana and teaches Ady basic survival skills such as hunting, planting, and foraging healing herbs.