Cut Up on Copacabana American Literature as well as the Estonian

as well as the Estonian Prose Award

what makes things happen

Featuring Urs Allemann

Praise for Dan O’Brien’s A Story That Happens

A brutally comic portrait of marriage

Cut Up on Copacabana American Literature as well as the EstonianLife is often experienced as a tedious continuum fragmented by moments of intense feeling or excitement. In Cut up on Copacabana, three sets of texts (Travel Notes, Boxing Rings and Schoolboy Rites of Passage) explore some of these moments in terms of travel, sport and youthful experience recollected later in life. In David Scotts stories, connections between the hands of Michelangelos David and the leaning tower of Pisa, or a scar on the shoulder and