In 107 short essays or chapters (some just a paragraph), Orner shapeshifts and time travels. “Still No Word From You” looks at its author’s life through the lens of reading: memoir as daybook, as it were. Unordered, like our thoughts in any given day we lived.” I’m not stretching when I suggest Orner is doing something similar.
Hayes’ work is “part homage, part reckoning, part collection of stray intimate details,” Orner writes, “… notes for a future biographer, but his method seems to me the only honest way of trying to construct an actual life on the page. Like its predecessor collection “ Am I Alone Here?,” a 2016 finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, “Still No Word From You” is a book of conversations: Orner in dialogue with other books, Orner in dialogue with himself. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores.Ībout halfway through “ Still No Word From You: Notes in the Margin,” Peter Orner invokes Terrance Hayes’ “To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation With the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight.” By this point we know enough about what we’ve been reading to recognize the parallels between Orner’s project and Hayes’ work of biography-as-criticism-as-autobiography. Still No Word From You: Notes in the Margin
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