Each story in this jubilantly acclaimed collection pays testament to the wisdom...
Grisham returns to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his immensely popular...
With clarity and ease, Munro once again renders complex, difficult events and...
I hate to say this being an MFA candidate myself, but Ohlin's book definitely reads like a young writer, and her stories fall into a pretty predictable pattern - wham bam opening, dragging middle, and sudden poignant ending. Which is also exactly what I do...Still, when she's good, she's great.
Alix's short stories of suburban misery are fantastic! One has even appeared in the Best American Short Stories series.
I found this on one of the giveaway shelves at my last job. The front cover quote makes a comparison to Lorrie Moore, so I figured I'd check it out. It's a good book of stories, but (like with the last book I grabbed that had Lorrie Moore comparisons), it didn't remind me of Lorrie Moore at all. Most of the stories left me wanting more, and some of them ended abruptly and with no explanation of why the characters did what they did, which drove me a little crazy. But overall it was good.
I remember liking it a lot, but I can't remember a single story out of the whole book. I guess I'll have to read it again.
One of those you try to put down in between stories and can't.
Chris Baty is hysterical. Somehow he has convinced 100,000+ people to write...
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