Rebecca Makkai on The View from the Seventh Layer

Rebecca Makkai gives a brief mention to my 2008 collection The View from the Seventh Layer in her Substack entry regarding her idea for “a new and unconventional prize: one that celebrates the best book from 15 years ago that never won a major award.” She proposes calling it “the Cassandra Prize (as in, a visionary book that no one fully appreciated in its time).” You can read the entry here. She praises The Ghost Variations—and the lists on this website—in a slightly later entry.