As snarky and sarcastic as you would expect, if you read his blog. Far more tender and sweet than you would expect, if you read his blog.
Whereas the Jason Brown stories were primarily about relationships or interconnections — friends, lovers, families — the characters in Goldberg’s stories are much more loners or those who have been alienated, by either choice or circumstance; suicide attempters, people on the fringe of their own lives. Some of the stories seem right out of the everyday; others have a little sprinkle of the kind of fantasticalness that one would find, say, in an Aimee Bender story (particularly “The Jesus of Cathedral City” and “Comeback Special”).
Strong. Good. Compelling. I’m impressed!