One Hundred Demons

"Like [Tobias] Wolff and [Dave] Eggars, [Linda Barry] finds a tone that accommodates self-criticism and self-irony without tripping over into self-loathing (although her self-portraits can be pretty fierce, and are invariably pimply), but what she is particularly good at is resonance. These stories all contain little grenades of meaning that tend to explode just after you've read the last line. One can deduce that Barry had a tough childhood, but she prefers to concentrate on the details that connect rather than exclude--it's and innate talent, and one that separates the artists from the self-pitying bores."Barry, Lynda is the author of 'One Hundred Demons', published 2005 under ISBN 9781570614590 and ISBN 1570614598.