Stories in the Worst Way
Not bad stories, whatever the title.  Rather, Gary Lutz's debut collection shimmers with a spare, elegant prose and a witty sensibility rare for such a young writer.  Each story flashes by so quickly it's difficult to get your bearings before its gone and the next is thrust upon you.  Even the sentences barely pause for breath: "I was a flask shaped man in a velour shirt sitting at long lunchroom tables in business schools, cosmetology schools, junior colleges, community colleges."--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.