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Book Review

Penthouse F

THE COLLIDESCOPE, May 23, 2022

Reviewed by George Salis

"Central Park West Trilogy and The Assisted Living Facility Library by Richard Kalich"

Penthouse F is Kalich’s most metafictional novel, seeing as it’s about his struggles as an artist to write a novel, leading him to concoct a Mengelian experiment in the vein of Haberman to help him overcome that writer’s block as if the reality in his fiction is more real than the fiction proper. And that’s the thing, one of the main themes of this novel is the porous boundaries of art and life.... READ MORE