Who is Eric Kraft and why should you care? Well, maybe because "Newsweek called him "the literary equivalent of Fred Astaire dancing: great art that looks like fun." Time saw him as "luminously intelligent." The New York Times found his novels "full of mystery and wonder." And 10 days ago in Newsday, book critic Richard Gehr praised him as a "buoyant and brilliant presence" on the occasion of his eighth and most recent novel." Intrigued? Find out more about one of the literati's favored sons and read the rest of the article here:

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