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Michael Gregory Stephens teaches us how to look at things we have never seen before-and to make them part of what we know about ourselves. - Paul Auster. Michael Gregory Stephens is a brilliant writer, with a great imagination and heart. And his words are downright gorgeous. I love the way his meditations veer with daring and grace between the poetry and the spoken, between art and life. - Hilma Wolitzer. Stephens's pieces, particularly the personal ones, are hard-won, deeply honest and unaccommodatingly true. The 'Irishness' of the writing is of course not a matter of nativity or direct experience but of keen imagination and percipience. - Richard Gilman