Peter Trachtenberg Nonfiction writer, journalist

"Written on Skin"

Date of Review: 
06/01/1997
Reviewer: 
Madison Smartt Bell
Source: 
SPIN

Review Excerpt:

"Rendered with wit, humility, passion, and a razor-sharp perspicacity that recalls Joan Didion in her prime. Seven Tattoos combines the accessibility of fiction with the rigors of philosophy, and sometimes theology. Trachtenberg combines his complex insights with such a fierce efficiency that you feel he must be writing for his life."