Peter Nathaniel Malae, What We Are (2010)

“The protagonist of the novel, Paul, names a book of poetry after his girlfriend, Beatrice La Dulce Shaliqua Schneck ‘and after Dante’s muse, presumably because he, too, was a poet who made his fame in hell.’” [. . .]    –Fiona Maazel, “Angry Young Man,” The New York Times (March 18, 2010)