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The Telling Makes It True: On Robert Glück’s “About Ed” — Cleveland Review of Books

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“To describe how the world is organized may be the same as organizing the world.” —Robert Glück, “Long Note on New Narrative” (2004) “Ed is the dreamer, and you can't look squarely enough at his face to speak of possession.” —Robert Glück, About Ed (2023) Following their first night together, as the sun poured through the window, Ed Aulerich-Sugai recounted his dreams to Robert Glück. Still closeted to their families, both men were "paranoid," trapped between selves, and drawn to the catalyzing energy of the forbidden: "the burningness of sex of loneliness." "Ed and I were lovers, that's the term we used in the seventies," Glück writes. Ed was his "first person," the lover who preceded the others and remains set apart by that. The "first" is the puncture that erases the known world, that relationship that requires the creation of a new world to hold it, both figuratively and literally. They discover themselves through their craving for one another. "We didn’t know that our desire for

The Telling Makes It True: On Robert Glück’s “About Ed” Alina Stefanescu · February 29, 2024 Robert Glück | About Ed | New York Review Books | October 2023 | 280 Pages “To describe how the world is organized may be the same as organizing the world.” —Robert Glück, “Long Note on New Narrative” (2004) “Ed is the dreamer, and you can’t look squarely enough at his face to speak of possession.” —Robert Glück, About Ed (2023) 1. Following their first night together, as the sun poured through the window, Ed Aulerich-Sugai recounted his dreams to Robert Glück. Still closeted to their fami

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