In Red Flags, Juris Jurjevics has brilliantly accomplished a feat that is becoming a major characteristic of 21st … - Robert Olen Butler

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He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.

Robert Olen Butler

In Red Flags, Juris Jurjevics has brilliantly accomplished a feat that is becoming a major characteristic of 21st century literature: the seamless combining of a genre form with the deep resonance of literary art. This book is thrilling to read for both its narrative drive and its insight into the human heart.

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Story is a yearning meeting an obstacle.

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All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing.

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The only craft and technique you have legitimate access to is the craft and technique you forgot, that has dissolved itself into the unconscious. . . Because you have learned it so well you have forgotten it.

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The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves.

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