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Excerpt from Dear Empire State Building
"You’ll probably think me a flaky female, but I'm writing
to tell you, now that you're no longer the tallest building in my world,
you're so much sexier. Stuck in traffic crossing the Kosciusko Bridge
last night, I looked up at you, beyond those acres of cemetery that
announce the borough of death, and beheld your early evening grandeur
just before I drove into the guard rail."
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Praise for Dear Empire State Building
Dear Empire State Building is a fascinating and original
collection of tour de force short stories. In few words, Kirpal Gordon
can vivify and capsulize inner states of mind. His characters move whole
upon the page, possessing a life of their own, skirting the fringes
of sanity and safety. For Gordon no place would be safe, even if it
appeared to be so. His situations and people may be on the edge of any
usual or accepted form of life, but he makes them so credible we're
led to wonder if everyone doesn't possess a touch of madness, if he
or she were able to plumb thoughts and experiences as Gordon does. He
makes the unusual both believable and conceivable, the outré
something that could happen to any of us, and in that trait he enmeshes
us in perceptions that dig far beneath the apparent.
Laurel Speer, editor/critic, Remark
There is work in Dear Empire State Building that is unforgettable.
In this wonderful book there’s so much movement that everything
seems suddenly motionless and perfected. It’s as if Borges were
telling us that these stories take place in the kingdom of metaphor,
where there is no time for stories.
Norman Dubie, poet-in-residence, Arizona State University
In Dear Empire State Building, Kirpal Gordon’s fantastic
collection of fiction, he weaves beautifully between what is called
“reality” and “imagination” so that each magnifies
and explains each other. It’s extremely enjoyable to read. The
language is direct and precise yet has an unearthly sense to it so I
can see the streets of New York from many different points of view.
Hubert Selby, Jr., author of Last Exit to Brooklyn
Kirpal Gordon writes about what can’t be written about in Dear
Empire State Building—like in “Caribbean Moon” he
takes us where it’s just too crazy to go, where we can’t go
‘cause it’s way away, WAY AWAY from us. How’d he do it?
He creates it. Out of his head and out of his ear and out of his eyes
and his imagination and his heart because he’s a poet, an artist,
a writer, a musician, a lover and a hipster—he pops his fingers,
baby: he knows.
Fielding Dawson, author, Black Sparrow Press