A Pig in Paris
One of Steven Huff's characters, an alcoholic who drives around apologizing to those he has wrionged, finally thinks, "Nobody gets it." But we get it, in all these epiphanic stories, in quick gists and jolts, in slivers of sudden recognition, even in deft transitions from one to the next. Huff is uncanny in setting each flash fiction into effective motion, limning story and character until nothing is left for us at the end but delight and wisdom. A Pig in Paris is a complex, comic, scintillating collection. --William HeyenSteven Huff is a master of styles and voices, always interesting. Realistic narrative, parody, ghost story, dramatic monologue, Borgesian fantasy, even a wildly funny review of the book you are reading--he does it all. A Pig in Paris is an impressive debut. --Peter Makuck