Written with passionate precision, Florsheims collection goes to the core of a wide range of intrigues and interests: the Holocaust, artworks, the mysteries of the everyday. Urbane and astute, his work is empathetic and clear-headed. A rich offering.
-David Meltzer, author of Davids Copy: The Selected Poems of David Meltzer

Among the pleasures of Stewart Florsheims A Split Second of Light are his incisive character portraits of parents and family and the dramatic incidents he conjures out of paintings by Caillebotte, Chardin, Bonnard and others. Florsheims gift for scene-setting and succinct...