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Check Out Darrell Nicholson's Review of 15 Views Of Orlando

3/4/2012

 
15 Views of Orlando Delivers Un-Disneyfied Orlando in Mouse-Sized Bites
Darrell Nicholson

The aim of the short story collection 15 Views of Orlando (Burrow Press, 176 pp., $15, January 2012) appears deceptively simple: fifteen talented fiction writers set out to paint a literary portrait of the “other” Orlando, the raw un-Disneyfied reality that exists beyond the wall that Walt built. But exploring any swath of urban sprawl through fiction, particularly one as schizophrenic as Orlando-outside-the-turnstiles, requires some sleight of hand. In a realm where the special taxing district called the Reedy Creek Improvement District can (poof!) become the Magic Kingdom, nothing is quite what it seems...   Click here to read the rest!

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