Pan
A steady oscillation between deliciously observed, ferociously strange fragments of consciousness and the social kabuki of the tragicomic teenage bildungsroman ... Invigorating and often hilarious ... When we’re really in Nicholas’s mind, we never want to leave ... Thrilling ... Don’t expect much in the way of big narrative twists ... The juice here is watching Clune’s little cyclones of thought ... Like a great painter, Clune can show us the mind, the world, with just a few well-placed verbs.
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Saturated with a grand, psychedelic spirit, the sort of holy mania one finds in writers like William Blake or Christopher Smart .. Dazzling ... At once startlingly funny and radiantly...strange ... Whatever Pan might lack in terms of old-fashioned narrative mechanics, it more than makes up for in humor ... Insight, indeed, is what Pan offers in spades, and part of what makes it so delicious is the way it mulches up both the familiar materials of millennial adolescence...into something that feels at once semi-typically earthy and decidedly cosmic ... Approachable and inviting but also wild enough to seem practically avant-garde ... Exhilarating, a pure joy.
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Clune doesn’t choose between what we might describe as the poetic and the novelistic, the mystic and the naturalistic ... When it comes to time and consciousness, Clune’s perennial topics, visionary perception is perhaps just a deeper form of realism.
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