The Greatest Show: Why the long face, Mr. Fiction Writer?

Over at The Missouri Review's blog, I contemplate why in fiction I'm drawn to what's beautiful and sad.

Applause!

Foreword magazine: ''an auspicious fiction debut from a marvelously talented writer"

The Rumpus: "intricately woven"

The Missoula Independent: "strange, sad and beautiful"

The Baton Rouge Advocate: "... refuses to turn away from human suffering and refuses to dismiss the potential of human healing"

JMWW: "scaffolded with lean, well-chiseled sentences, and sung with an emotional lyric"

Baltimore Book Talk: "brilliantly uses the focused format of the short story to capture the small details of everyday life."

Contrary Magazine: "creates a whole from the sum of its parts"

Shenandoah Review: "beautifully written. Not a word out of place."

West Branch Wired: "These are quiet stories, in the tradition of Winesburg, Ohio, ... [with] the dramatic weight and complexity of a novel."

Colorado Review: "gorgeously captures the sweep of ordinary lives made remarkable by a tragic twist of fate."

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