From bus rides to bars, to encounters with friends and family and most importantly with strangers, Larry Gross lives his life out loud by drawing on the small slices of life, the little things most people don’t notice. “There is no artifice in Gross’s art. What distinguishes his writing is his knack for seeing and hearing things worth remembering. His pastiche draws on the commonality of urban life, with many of his stories set in downtown bars or on the buses that take him there. The main character is No One Special, a person who appears in various guises, capable of both unfettered generosity and burdensome peevishness.” Gregory Flannery, Managing Editor, Streetvibes

ラリー・グロスが描く世界は、都会の喧騒に埋もれた日常を鮮やかな芸術へ昇華させる魔法に満ちています。バスの車内やバーで交わされる言葉、見知らぬ他者との一期一会。誰もが通り過ぎる断片を慈しむ彼の筆致には一切の虚飾がなく、平凡な瞬間に潜む生の鼓動を刻みつけるその鋭い観察眼こそが、本作の本質的な魅力と言えます。 特筆すべきは「特別な誰かではない」という名の主人公の造形です。寛大さと偏屈さを併せ持つ多面的な姿は、読者自身の鏡に他なりません。都市生活の断片を繋ぎ、孤独の中にある普遍的な繋がりを浮き彫りにするこの人間讃歌は、読み終えた後のあなたの世界を、以前よりずっと愛おしいものに変えてくれるはずです。