• To Assume A Pleasing Shape

    Brooklyn Rail – Jan 2012 by Liz Axelrod Joseph Salvatore To Assume A Pleasing Shape  (BOA Editions, 2011) An innate sense of sadness and joy runs through Joseph Salvatore’s To Assume A Pleasing Shape. Salvatore, an experimental fiction writer and creative writing professor at the New School (where, full disclosure, I met him through his teaching),