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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! |
