A review by trin
Windows on the World: Fifty Writers, Fifty Views by Lorin Stein, Matteo Pericoli

reflective slow-paced

2.5

I like the idea of this far better than the execution. I share Pericoli's obsession with views, with the way the frame of a window frames your perception, and how much the environment outside your window can shape your creative life. His ink drawings are simple but can be evocative -- though often I do wish they incorporated color or more detail. It's the essays that really let this concept down. They're just not very interesting or good? Which is especially disappointing when your contributors are all writers. But most simply do not have anything compelling to say, and one even starts going on about "the nobility of poverty" (vom).

2.5 stars, rounded up for what could have been.