Robert Olmstead’s Novel ‘Gritty One Moment, Lyrical the Next,’ Washington Post Review Says
Ohio Wesleyan University professor Robert Olmstead’s newest book, “The Coldest Night,” was reviewed recently in The Washington Post and in The New York Times.
In The Washington Post article, reviewer and author Chris Bohjalian states: “Olmstead is an immensely gifted stylist, his prose capable of conveying the magic and passion of first love as well as the ferocity of battle. He also has a knack for imagery as memorable as it is unexpected. …”
In The New York Times, writer Mike Peed discusses Olmstead’s writing, stating it sometimes “makes you wonder if Olmstead was meant to be a poet. But Olmstead is a novelist, and a very good one.”
The book, set during the Korean War era, is the third in a trilogy that also includes the acclaimed “Coal Black Horse” and “Far Bright Star.”
At Ohio Wesleyan, Olmstead serves as director of the university’s Creative Writing Program.
Read the full Washington Post review here. Read The New York Times article here.
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