Laurie Stone, Author Doubleday Books $18.95 (209p) ISBN 978-0-385-26308-5
This first novel by Village Voice writer Stone is built around an irresistible premise--the manipulation of a family by a brilliant but Machiavellian psychoanalyst. Serge Lodst, a Russian emigre whose accent is ``full of Germanic crunches, Slavic...
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Laurie Stone, Author Ecco Press $24 (299p) ISBN 978-0-88001-474-8
Stand-up comedy rarely attracts thoughtful criticism, so Stone's ""Laughing in the Dark"" Village Voice column has been a beacon since 1987. Stone, who won the NBCC's Nona Balakian award for her book criticism and who is also a theater critic for...
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Laurie Stone, Author Grove Press $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1618-5
A collection of works by different authors is likely to show inconsistencies, but the bright spots offered by these eight writers far outweigh the rough edges. With examples of what she calls ""post-therapeutic memoir,"" Stone (Laughing in the Dark:
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Laurie Stone. Northwestern Univ./Triquarterly, $17.95 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-0-8101-3428-7
In this collection of stories, Stone (Starting with Serge) documents a woman's existence through her fragmented memories, observations, and musings as she searches for a sense of home. "Yard Sale" introduces Laurie when she's in her 60s. She's a...
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