Douglas Trevor

"Trevor's carefully crafted debut is a reminder of the interesting interweavings that the story collection form can achieve. Beyond any one plot, this is about the difficulty of communicating in the face of loss... The author offers a tantalizing array of missed links... To call this slim volume a patchwork is not to diminish the way that its varied squares hang together. The stories possess both a separateness and a coherence that makes for an intriguing, layered exploration of human desire."
“Douglas Trevor writes movingly and persuasively about the ways in which people can be unmoored by loss. The bereaved parents and brokenhearted students in his stories turn to travel and to drink and most of all to books for solace: Thoreau’s Walden, Lowell's poetry, and even Gray’s Anatomy. Each of the characters is a fully realized human being, a small civilization of memories and preoccupations, and the final paragraphs of Trevor’s stories are among the most knowing and beautiful you are ever likely to read.”
"In 'Labor Day Hurricane, 1935,' Douglas Trevor vividly creates a historical event. While that is the only story in The Thin Tear in the Fabric of Space set in the historical past, many of the other stories juxtapose fact--both historical and scientific--with narration to an engaging effect, one that distinguishes the voice of this new writer."
"From an elderly, speech-impaired professor with a crush on her female student, to a lonely young man who steals exotic soaps from a trendy boutique, Douglas Trevor inhabits a wide range of lives in his debut collection The Thin Tear in the Fabric of Space. Its breadth of vision made all the more remarkable by the author's unfailing compassion. In story after story, he sheds light on the longings his characters hide from others and, sometimes, from themselves. These are stories where solace is found in words--words declared or stammered or half-remembered in moments of wrenching change. What these characters discover, along with Trevor's fortunate readers, is how often the power of language prevails."