Forrest Gander?  Who he?  Did he make up that name?  But by page seven you can’t tear me away from As a Friend.  By page twenty I am thinking he must have come from Mars, or Venus.  And by page fifty I am thinking there are writers and there are writers and this guy takes the cake.  How do they do it?  Dylan Thomas said it was all a matter of their ‘craft and sullen art.’  It sure as hell is not something they teach you in school.  Don’t ask me: I tried.”