I review Charles Baxter’s “Gryphon”
A Baxter story always surprises with its metaphysics. Typically Midwestern, Baxter’s characters appear to be living ordinary, even mundane lives when suddenly the supernatural or near-supernatural, sometimes the beautifully strange, rears its magical head. Not really magical realism, it’s more like correlative subtext that has replaced T.S. Eliot’s objectivity with a metaphysical phenomenon — the magical correlative.
I review Charles Baxter’s Gryphon New and Selected Stories in The January 15 edition of The Kansas City Star.
You buy Gryphon at Barnes & Noble.
