With American Morons, Glen Hirshberg confidently shoulders his way through the generational pack to claim his rightful place on the summit. These stories are smart, challenging, ripe with feeling, expansive in every way: Horror as it should be writ, and as only the best and most expressive can write it.

Could you defeat a cloud, a dream, a poem?

Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.

However, I think I managed to reach a new level with Koko, and I will always be grateful for the experience.

In violence there is often the quality of yearning - the yearning for completion. For closure. For that which is absent and would if present bring to fulfillment. For the body without which the wing is a useless frozen ornament. ("A Short Guide To The City")

There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.

Close your mouth and get out of the way, because here comes Kelly Link, than whom no one is better.