Reviews

Writing is both will and receptivity, design and chance, an assertion of the self and submission to a greater rhythm of language and of being. Rebecca Goodman's novel Forgotten Night emphasizes receptivity, even malleability, and an openness to these larger rhythms, even as its narrator, Jewish and self-estranged, seeks out precise answers to a personal question….

Reviewed of Forgotten Night by Leonard Schwartz

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“Words rained all around me,” states our narrator in a moment of loss, clarity, and reverie. “At first a soft drizzle—conjunctions, words that seemed to connect but not describe.”

Review from Evan Burkin (he/him/his) is working toward an MFA in Creative Writing at San Francisco State University

Review of Forgotten Night by Mark Axelrod-Sokolov.

Review of Forgotten Night by Eugene Garber

Poets whose online readings I’ve enjoyed include a recent one with Martin Nakell and Rebecca Goodman

From Douglas Messerli’s ongoing cultural memoir

Goodman provides us with a space to contemplate how we connect to those that came before us, their sacrifices, how we connect to those around us, and how we connect to those who yet do not exist.