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America's greatest essayist. --Los Angeles Times</p> [Frazier] is a sophisticated, intense writer who--Twain-like--uses a deceptive style of naivete and comic self-deprecation to carry serious perceptions. --<i>The New York Review of Books</i></p> A great writer. --Jamaica Kincaid</p> [Ian Frazier] is like an archeologist of social sensibilities, paying rapt attention to dialect, landscapes, sounds, and political quirks, then displaying them in artfully simple sentences. --<i>The New Yorker</i> A writer of uncommon grace and subtlety. --Steve Johnson, <i>Chicago Tribune</i></p>

-America's greatest essayist.---Los Angeles Times-[Frazier] is a sophisticated, intense writer who--Twain-like--uses a deceptive style of naivete and comic self-deprecation to carry serious perceptions.---The New York Review of Books-A great writer.---Jamaica Kincaid-[Ian Frazier] is like an archeologist of social sensibilities, paying rapt attention to dialect, landscapes, sounds, and political quirks, then displaying them in artfully simple sentences.---The New Yorker-A writer of uncommon grace and subtlety.---Steve Johnson, Chicago Tribune America's greatest essayist. --Los Angeles Times [Frazier] is a sophisticated, intense writer who--Twain-like--uses a deceptive style of naivete and comic self-deprecation to carry serious perceptions. --The New York Review of Books A great writer. --Jamaica Kincaid [Ian Frazier] is like an archeologist of social sensibilities, paying rapt attention to dialect, landscapes, sounds, and political quirks, then displaying them in artfully simple sentences. --The New Yorker A writer of uncommon grace and subtlety. --Steve Johnson, Chicago Tribune

""America's greatest essayist.""--Los Angeles Times ""[Frazier] is a sophisticated, intense writer who--Twain-like--uses a deceptive style of naiveté and comic self-deprecation to carry serious perceptions.""--The New York Review of Books ""A great writer.""--Jamaica Kincaid ""[Ian Frazier] is like an archeologist of social sensibilities, paying rapt attention to dialect, landscapes, sounds, and political quirks, then displaying them in artfully simple sentences.""--The New Yorker ""A writer of uncommon grace and subtlety.""--Steve Johnson, Chicago Tribune

America's greatest essayist. --Los Angeles Times [Frazier] is a sophisticated, intense writer who--Twain-like--uses a deceptive style of naivete and comic self-deprecation to carry serious perceptions. --The New York Review of Books A great writer. --Jamaica Kincaid [Ian Frazier] is like an archeologist of social sensibilities, paying rapt attention to dialect, landscapes, sounds, and political quirks, then displaying them in artfully simple sentences. --The New Yorker A writer of uncommon grace and subtlety. --Steve Johnson, Chicago Tribune -America's greatest essayist.---Los Angeles Times -[Frazier] is a sophisticated, intense writer who--Twain-like--uses a deceptive style of naivete and comic self-deprecation to carry serious perceptions.---The New York Review of Books -A great writer.---Jamaica Kincaid -[Ian Frazier] is like an archeologist of social sensibilities, paying rapt attention to dialect, landscapes, sounds, and political quirks, then displaying them in artfully simple sentences.---The New Yorker -A writer of uncommon grace and subtlety.---Steve Johnson, Chicago Tribune America's greatest essayist. --Los Angeles Times [Frazier] is a sophisticated, intense writer who--Twain-like--uses a deceptive style of naivete and comic self-deprecation to carry serious perceptions. --The New York Review of Books A great writer. --Jamaica Kincaid [Ian Frazier] is like an archeologist of social sensibilities, paying rapt attention to dialect, landscapes, sounds, and political quirks, then displaying them in artfully simple sentences. --The New Yorker A writer of uncommon grace and subtlety. --Steve Johnson, Chicago Tribune

-America's greatest essayist.---Los Angeles Times-[Frazier] is a sophisticated, intense writer who--Twain-like--uses a deceptive style of naivete and comic self-deprecation to carry serious perceptions.---The New York Review of Books-A great writer.---Jamaica Kincaid-[Ian Frazier] is like an archeologist of social sensibilities, paying rapt attention to dialect, landscapes, sounds, and political quirks, then displaying them in artfully simple sentences.---The New Yorker-A writer of uncommon grace and subtlety.---Steve Johnson, Chicago Tribune

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IAN FRAZIER is the author of Travels in Siberia, Great Plains, On the Rez, Lamentations of the Father, and Coyote V. Acme, among other works, all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He graduated from Harvard University. A frequent contributor to The New Yorker, he lives in Montclair, New Jersey.

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