Description: Stories of the Street is a series of imaginative meditations--through prose poems, short-short essays, microfictions, and prose pieces without precise genre distinction--of what it means to encounter lost or discarded texts. By photographing on-location, David Lazar becomes a flaneur of paper debris, puzzling over the evidence of urban human life that litter represents.
Review Quotes: "'One must awaken the stories that sleep in the streets, ' wrote the philosopher of everyday life Michel de Certeau. David Lazar has assembled an anthology of them, found underfoot and awakened with deft artistry and genuine wonder. Balanced between prose poetry and flash fiction, these pieces, with their instigating photographs, reveal that stories waiting to be told may be found wherever you look."--D. J. Waldie, author of Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir and Becoming Los Angeles: Myth, Memory, and a Sense of Place