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Are you the kind of person who has a sarcastic sense of humor but find yourself surrounded by people who can't seem to get the joke? If so, you might really like this book. These are bleak, funny stories about lost people, written in a brisk, colloquial prose that sparkles with a wit that never masks......more

I like this book. I have read this book many times. I do not read it that much anymore. A lot of it is annoying to me now but I read it many times before. I read some of the stories maybe 10 times. I feel like Lorrie Moore worked a lot harder and longer and with more agony in her face while editing t......more

Lorrie Moore is one of my favorite short story writers. Her voice is singular, capable of crafting laugh-out-loud moments on one page, and eerily wistful moments on another. There are times when her zippy, free-wheeling style feels a bit too clever to allow all of her wonderfully weird and fragile a......more

Each book I've read of Lorrie Moore's slides me even closer to unconditional love. (okay, not yet reaching for hyperbole like "she can transcribe the Phone Book and I'd read it" but pretty close). From sentence construction that sets off Pavlovian salivation to her ability of taking mundane, random......more

Adam Mars-Jones has this to say about LM: "The dominant influence on American short fiction when Moore started publishing was the stoic minimalism of Raymond Carver, the recovering binger's pledge of: 'One sentence at a time.' She escaped that influence, and was spared the struggle of throwing it off......more