L A W R E N C E K R A U S E R .
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Biography
Lawrence Krauser lives in New York, where he is at work on a second novel.
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Books
Lemon (McSweeney's, 2000)
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Plays
Joan's Wallpaper (2004)
Wall Street Made Simple (2002)
The Citrussexual (2001)
Whale Tale (2000)
Horrible Child (1998)
Honeymoon in Dealey Plaza (1996)
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Films
Dangerous Dave & the Whalers (started 1999, ongoing)
Lemon (started 1991, ongoing)
Horrible Child (started 1986, ongoing)
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Press
December 2002
Sweet Fancy Moses
Short Story: Hammock, Lightning
By Lawrence Krauser
July 2002
Mass Media
Review: Lemon
A Crazy Little Fruit Called Love
By Evan Sicuranza
"A wise and poetic, gorgeously written literary gem."
August 2002
The Muse Apprentice Guild
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
By Lawrence Krauser
October 2001
The Vesallus Vernacular
Review: Lemon
By Christopher Kelley
"I love this book."
June 2001
East Bay Express (CA)
Review: Lemon
By Kara Platoni
"And from McSweeney's Volume 2 came an excerpt of playwright Lawrence Krauser's first novel, Lemon. And now, finally, we have Lemon itself. And it is good. And so terribly strange."
June 2001
NowCulture.com
Review: Lemon
By Ernest Hilbert
"A startling and exhilarating first novel."
April 2001
Los Angeles Times
Review: Lemon
By Susan Salter Reynolds
"There's something to it, all right, the ideas that one could fall in love with a lemon; the shape, the yellow, the smell."
March 2001
Mindjack
Review: Lemon
By Mike Sugarbaker
"If this novel is any indication, the McSweeney's house style of innovative prose surfaces, plus old fashioned wonder, plus fascination with very unorthodox opinions and states of mind, seems to be heading somewhere good."
March 2001
The New York Times
Review: Lemon
Books in Brief: Fiction; Now, Take My Lemon
By Jennifer Reese
"Krauser, who is a playwright, has interspersed scenes of Wendell and his lemon with elegant ruminations on the cultivation of lemons and descriptions of contemporary cubicle life. His prose is immaculate; his premise, patently ridiculous."
Feb 2001
NOW Toronto
Review: Lemon
Lemon Fresh
By Matt Galloway
"In this unusual and captivating novel...Krauser shifts between straight prose, poetry, music, vague asides and informed ramblings on the role of the lemon in history."
2001
The Stranger
Review: Lemon
Love Gone Sour
By Ashley Gaulthier
"Lemon began as a screenplay eight years ago. Krauser focused on the 'high concept'—the idea of a guy who falls for a lemon—and continued to develop the idea into this strange and complex book. Krauser, who has taught filmmaking in the past, is now focusing on making a film based on the book."
Weepmag.com
Review: Lemon
By Matt Herlihy
"Lemon moves through you like a dream. Its voice is a whisper one moment and a roar the next, its rhythms soothe you with an odd familiarity. And while you're in it, it makes perfect sense. It's a love story like none before."
Seminary Co-op Bookstore
Review: Lemon
"A thoughtful novel about filling emptiness and the stretching for meaning and connections to those things around us."
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Additional Links
Full text of Horrible Child
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