weather (n): The condition of the atmosphere (at a given place and time) with respect to heat or cold, quantity of sunshine, presence or absence of rain, hail, snow, thunder, fog, etc., violence or gentleness of the winds. Also, the condition of the atmosphere regarded as subject to vicissitudes.

by moriahlpurdy

The Weather Stations, by Ryan Call, Caketrain, 2011

These stories are at once startling and beautiful. The world(s) of these stories is/are weathered… the characters face trying emotional and physical battering, and the weather itself behaves as a character, a deliverer of conflict, or as the element in the stories that interrupts, brings forward, gives resistance. These stories remind me of Don DeLillo at his best — though I think Ryan Call exceeds DeLillo’s talent… the language here is just so excessively beautiful. My heart breaks over and over again in the reading, and yet my lips hurt a bit from also smiling. A beautiful collection!

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  1. Update: Ryan Call | here now, myriads says:
    October 26, 2011 at 9:51 am

    [...] remember that book The Weather Stations I said I liked a lot? Well, Ryan Call just won the Whiting Award, so that confirms its/his awesomeness. This is proof [...]

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