Reviewed: THIRTY-THREE CONVOLUTED SOLUTIONS TO THE WORLD'S SIMPLEST ROBBERY [2006]
by DAVID MOSCOVICH
I quite like this self-aware train-of-thought story - David Moscovich writes in a unique, absurd manner that is often quite funny. Taking on this piece can be a challenge - it is hardly a cohesive narrative, and it takes over half of its duration to move from the author's abstract ruminations to the actual convoluted robbery solutions in question. These "solutions" are actually the various hypothetical ideas the narrator and his friends come up with in order to rob an unlocked ATM machine seen in a burrito place. It's difficult to locate where exactly the story is set, and what parts are true or merely fantastical, but a well-executed twist on the last page provides the reader with a nice bit of closure. I recommend this to all experimental fiction enthusiasts.
-Michael Tau/Broken Pencil
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- The End of Dyslexistentialism
- New York, NY, U.S. Outlying Islands
- David Moscovich writes flash fiction, novellas and performs vocally in invented tongues. His stories and interviews have appeared both in print and on the web, in Fringe, Word Riot, Broken Pencil, Rain Taxi, The Rumpus, Faster Times, Artvoice, Dark Sky, Anemone Sidecar, Unlikely Stories, Buk Scene, Silent Revolution, Smokebox, and others. David Moscovich escribe novelitos y toque la bicicleta amplificado. No tiene ritmo y no puede bailar el Cha-Cha. Ahora este viviendo en Nueva York. Moscovich ne parle pas le francais mais c'est un americain mais c'est por le contraire de les ideales typiques du ficcion et aussi du realite ingenument. Bravo.
