Lytton Bell’s Reviews > Winesburg, Ohio > Status Update

Hands are super-important in these stories, and vivid descriptions of the characters' hands appear every few pages. I'm left to wonder if the hands are symbolic - or if they are simply a reflection of the author's deep kinkiness and reveal a sexual fetish. I'm definitely getting a fetish kind of vibe. It's deeply compelling.

Golly, I love stuff like this. Twee Americana perforated by a gleeful, subterranean perversion. It feels familiar and weird at the same time. Dear Sherwood Anderson, who was married four times and died from swallowing a toothpick. I would cross the street if I saw you coming, if only to escape becoming #5. Nice book tho.