"In twenty-nine separate but ingenious ways, these Stories seek permanent residence within a reader.
You could build a civilization with them." --Ben Marcus, from the Int.
If we are made by what we read, if language truly builds people into what they are, how they think, the depth with which they feel, then these Stories are, to me, premium material for that construction project. . . .
They strive to become an emotional or intellectual cargo that might accompany us wherever, or however, we go. "In twenty-nine separate but ingenious ways, these Stories seek permanent residence within a reader