Tag: Laura van den Berg

Anthropogenesis, or: How to Make a Family
March 2013Soon it was all they could do to keep these children from singeing the draperies or shattering the glass windowpanes with a single touch.

Mansion
May 2011The floor was made of dirt, the walls dark and smooth, the ceiling just high enough for us to stand upright. You could walk a quarter mile before it ended, cut off by a stone wall. And it was in this tunnel that Darcie heard the voice of her mother, who was dead.
Meakin Armstrong: On Laura van den Berg
October 2009Laura van den Berg’s writing is spare and elliptical. Large topics are broached, but quietly and the stories stay with you.


