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— Benoît Lelièvre (@BenoitLelievre) March 27, 2015

"A swift and elegiac little story about loving things you can't have anymore." Orphans gets Dead End Follies'd. And likes it. A lot.

It really does. And it really is a wonderful, and wonderfully appreciated, review. So, drinks, many, on us, whenever we finally meet Benoit. Cool? Cool. Excerpt. Yes.

"Our world is changing before our very eyes. The lives we've been taught to live are becoming obsolete. What we were taught was right is becoming wrong. What's what ORPHANS is about: our surrender of control over change. The world we created that has left us behind. ORPHANS is about the future, but the issues it raises are pertinent today. Ben Tanzer wrote a novel that is efficient and graceful, yet it is throbbing with political implications I'm not sure it quite understands. That, my friends, is a prime exemple of the alchemy that creates great literature. It is both deliberate and incidental."

"Tanzer's artistic sensitivity is attuned to the subtlest shifts within." So Different Now is selected as Dead End Follies Best Short Story Collection of 2012.

Really. And awesomely cool that. Big thanks to Dead End Follies and the Benoit Lelievre for the year-end love and ongoing support.

"Tanzer is playing in Haruki Murakami's territory of crafting stories to describe the most complex, wordless emotions in the most graceful way possible." So Different Now gets Dead End Follies'd for "The New York Stories Tour 2012." And likes it. A lot.

We said there would be more and we couldn't be more geeked about this most kind review from the Dead End Follies and Benoit Lelievre. Big thanks sir and drinks on us for sure when next we meet. Excerpt? Totally.

"SO DIFFERENT NOW left its imprint on me. Because that's what powerful stories do. They scar you and chip away at you, make you a different person." 

 

When literary worlds collide. Code for Failure meets the Dead End Follies.

The Ryan Bradley's Code for Failure gets some much kind attention from new acquaintance Benoit Lelievre's Dead End Follies lit blog.

"I was reminded of many artists I loved when reading CODE FOR FAILURE. Kevin Smith being the first. CLERKS was the first big time comedy about over-the-counter jobs. It reminded me of personal hero of mine Henry Rollins, who brings politics to the masses in an entertaining, digestible format. There were echoes of Raymond Carver also. It had everything to charm me. But what made it truly remarkable is that despite that his influences are clear, the ideas are his alone. He is a new voice, a new force to be reckoned with."