Short Stories, Tall Tales
Adam Johnson follows his Pulitzer
Prize-winning The Orphan Master’s Son
with a story collection, Fortune Smiles.
In Padgett Powell’s new collection of
stories, Cries for Help, Various: Stories,
the surrealistic and comical terrain of
most of the forty-four stories here is
grounded by a real preoccupation with
longing, fear, work, loneliness, and
cultural nostalgia. Kelly Link’s first story
collection in a decade, Get in Trouble,
showcases her ability to combine the
fantastical and the mundane.