Peter Trachtenberg Nonfiction writer, journalist

"Confessions of a Sinner"

Date of Review: 
05/12/1997
Reviewer: 
Liesl Schillinger
Source: 
Washington Post Book World

Review Excerpt:

The artistry and humor of his wriitng, the pain of his mercilessly self-punishing insights, the relentlessness of ihs guilty misanthropy and the stream of sadness that bears them along all give Trachtenberg a solid claim to being a genuine American Dostoevsky-- not so much an imitator as a recurrence."