See You in Paradise
Stories

Five big fat stars to this one. People are weird and sometimes awful, and life is really confusing and a lot of totally inexplicable stuff happens. So does a lot of boring stuff. This is stories about that, many of which made me guffaw, some of which made me recoil. Take it slowly, read one a day. I......more

These were well-constructed, well-written stories, but most of them had no emotional resonance for me. There was one I really liked, though: A Stormy Evening at the Buck Snort Restaurant. It had so many layers in such a short story. It was about class differences, and about how thoroughly and tragic......more

This was a thoroughly enjoying read. For fans of Sam Lipsyte or George Saunders, you really can't go wrong. Like the two above authors, Lennon definitely has a wheelhouse in terms of characters he's interested in. They are usually men, sometimes involved in very imperfect marriages or relationships,......more

None of the stories leap out as better than the others, per se - I don't know that there's one where you'll go "OH WOW!" and post it up as a banner example of Lennon's work. Instead, each of the stories spins together into the whole and makes this collection that oh-so-rare example of being greater......more

I think it was my arrival at the seventh story about an early-middle-aged, sexually dissatisfied dude renegotiating his relationships when I had to put this one down. Maybe the eighth? I did like "Zombie Dan," even if it suffered from all of the same problems, probably because it managed to also be......more