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Ira David Socol A Certain Place of Dreams Ira David Socol The Drool Room
"One cannot easily dismiss the iconic similarities between the cover of The
Drool Room and
Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. The starkly lit classroom, at once
familiar yet ominous with all the
fears that a young child holds about going into the strange world and Kubrick's
fluorescent vision
of terror. Terror doesn't hide in the dark here- as with little Danny, it's in
the mind, front and center.
"And like Danny's infamous, "redrum" with it's dyslexic construction and
backwards
letters, The Drool Room's
cover title lets you know that this is a child's terror. But where
Danny had Tony, his imaginary friend who lived in his mouth and from whom he
took his direction,
our protagonist here, unnamed throughout, runs mostly solo through the suburban
grid of New Rochelle."
- Kurt Ochshorn
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