Esquire.com (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
I'm currently reading two recent works of fiction—Peace, by Richard Bausch, and Tree of Smoke, by Denis Johnson—that might be seen as exemplars of two very different brands of American writing. Although both are about Americans at war...
Charlotte was Both (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
The other night, I read Richard Bausch’s new novel, Peace. (Don’t be impressed. It’s a short novel, and difficult to put down once you begin.) It is intense and brutal. Set in the winter of 1944, some American soldiers in Italy have been sent on a reconaissance mission. The men are led by an elderly Italian [...]
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 05/25/2008
Richard Bausch is one of our country's best short-story writers, and his fine new novel, Peace, has the taut, spare power of the shorter form.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
In this short, perfect novel, Richard Bausch slips you so smoothly and unnervingly into a world of three young soldiers on the Italian peninsula south of Rome in 1944.
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 04/20/2008
Peace. By Richard Bausch. Knopf. 193 pages. $19.95. This riveting new novel by Richard Bausch is a terrible but true reminder in a season of war.
NewPages Blog (Free subscription) | 01/29/2008
18 Lies and 3 Truths 2007 Story Quarterly Annual Edited by Tom Jenks with Carol Edgarian and M. M. M. Hayes Includes eighteen great stories and three essays on the art of writing by today's master storytellers: Rick Bass, Richard Bausch, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Robert Olen Butler, Alice Hoffman, Charles Johnson, Jhumpa Lahiri, Lorrie Moore, and Joyce Carol Oates, as well as by some of today's
