Can't and Won't: Stories

A new collection of short stories from the woman Rick Moody has called the best prose stylist in AmericaHer stories may be literal one-liners the entirety of Bloomington reads, Now that I have been here for a little while, I can say with confidence that I have never been here before. Or they may be lengthier investigations of the havoc wreaked by the most mundane disruptions to routine in A Small Story About a Small Box of Chocolates, a professor receives a gift of thirty-two small chocolates and is paralyzed by the multitude of options she imagines for their consumption. The stories may appear in the form of letters of complaint they may be extracted from Flauberts correspondence or they may be inspired by the authors own dreams, or the dreams of friends.