Peter Trachtenberg's Reviews
Reviews of Peter’s Work
Sep.05.2008
Published by Salon
"Searching and often searing . . . . humane and, at the same time, . . . unsentimental. . . .The Book of Calamities is a work of real moral intricacy . . . . Trachtenberg's...
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Sep.01.2008
Published by O: The Oprah Magazine
"Frank and urgent . . . . Trachtenberg . . . . rais[es] complex questions about justice, malice, compassion, blame, self-pity, personal responsibility, faith, and doubt. . . . He...
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Jun.18.2008
Published by Publishers Weekly-- Religion Bookline
"This book is 'a layman's response' to unimaginable anguish, a collection of powerful stories rather than a philosophical treatise. Writing movingly about victims and survivors of...
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Jun.22.1997
Published by New Orleans Times-Picayune
"Mr. Trachtenberg is a splendid, if curious, raconteur--world-class at literate whining . . . and close to that in assuming the comical stance of aesthete/thug (collapsed veins,...
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Jun.01.1997
Published by SPIN
"Rendered with wit, humility, passion, and a razor-sharp perspicacity that recalls Joan Didion in her prime. Seven Tattoos combines the accessibility of fiction with the rigors of...
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May.12.1997
Published by Washington Post Book World
The artistry and humor of his wriitng, the pain of his mercilessly self-punishing insights, the relentlessness of ihs guilty misanthropy and the stream of sadness that bears them...
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About Peter
Peter Trachtenberg is the author of the memoir 7 Tattoos and The Book of Calamities, a hybrid of journalism, moral philosophy, and personal essay on the theme of suffering and its narratives. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Bomb, The New...
Causes Peter Trachtenberg Supports
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Mercy Corps, Move On, Oxfam
Peter’s Favorite Books
Lolita, Pale Fire-- Vladimir Nabokov
Bleak House-- Charles Dickens
Ulysses -- James Joyce
V, Gravity's Rainbow -- Thomas Pynchon
Valis -- Philip K. Dick
Bad...