“The variety of narrative styles in Brief Lives is remarkable, and some of the pieces – the mysterious ‘Vječan’ is an example – generate enormous tension in just a few lines of clipped prose…. And everywhere, the jolt of poetry leaps from the page…. Keith Hazzard writes like a man on fire, and Brief Lives is a virtuoso performance, as entertaining as it is elusive.” —Ian Colford, The Seaboard Review
