Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever
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1/03/2010 |
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Justin Taylor's crystalline, spare, and oddly moving prose cuts to the quick. His characters are guided by misapprehensions that bring them to hilarious but often tragic impasses with reality: a high school boy's desire to win over a crush leads him to experiment with black magic, a fast-food employee preoccupied by Abu Ghraib becomes obsessed with a coworker, a Tetris player attempts to beat his own record while his girlfriend sleeps and the world outside their window blazes to its end. Fearless and astute, funny and tragic, this collection heralds the arrival of a unique literary talent.
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Critical Praise for
Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever
“This spare, sharp book - Taylor’s debut collection - documents a deep authority on the unavoidable confusion of being young, disaffected and human … the most affecting stories in Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever are as unpredictable as a careening drunk. They leave us with the heavy residue of an unsettling strangeness, and a new voice that readers - and writers, too - might be seeking out for decades to come.”
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New York Times Book Review
“This spare, sharp book - Taylor’s debut collection - documents a deep authority on the unavoidable confusion of being young, disaffected and human … the most affecting stories in Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever are as unpredictable as a careening drunk. They leave us with the heavy residue of an unsettling strangeness, and a new voice that readers - and writers, too - might be seeking out for decades to come.”
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New York Times Book Review
“This spare, sharp book - Taylor’s debut collection - documents a deep authority on the unavoidable confusion of being young, disaffected and human … the most affecting stories in Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever are as unpredictable as a careening drunk. They leave us with the heavy residue of an unsettling strangeness, and a new voice that readers - and writers, too - might be seeking out for decades to come.”
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New York Times Book Review
“This spare, sharp book - Taylor’s debut collection - documents a deep authority on the unavoidable confusion of being young, disaffected and human … the most affecting stories in Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever are as unpredictable as a careening drunk. They leave us with the heavy residue of an unsettling strangeness, and a new voice that readers - and writers, too - might be seeking out for decades to come.”
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New York Times Book Review
“This spare, sharp book - Taylor’s debut collection - documents a deep authority on the unavoidable confusion of being young, disaffected and human … the most affecting stories in Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever are as unpredictable as a careening drunk. They leave us with the heavy residue of an unsettling strangeness, and a new voice that readers - and writers, too - might be seeking out for decades to come.”
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New York Times Book Review
“This spare, sharp book - Taylor’s debut collection - documents a deep authority on the unavoidable confusion of being young, disaffected and human … the most affecting stories in Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever are as unpredictable as a careening drunk. They leave us with the heavy residue of an unsettling strangeness, and a new voice that readers - and writers, too - might be seeking out for decades to come.”
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New York Times Book Review
“This spare, sharp book - Taylor’s debut collection - documents a deep authority on the unavoidable confusion of being young, disaffected and human … the most affecting stories in Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever are as unpredictable as a careening drunk. They leave us with the heavy residue of an unsettling strangeness, and a new voice that readers - and writers, too - might be seeking out for decades to come.”
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New York Times Book Review
“This spare, sharp book - Taylor’s debut collection - documents a deep authority on the unavoidable confusion of being young, disaffected and human … the most affecting stories in Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever are as unpredictable as a careening drunk. They leave us with the heavy residue of an unsettling strangeness, and a new voice that readers - and writers, too - might be seeking out for decades to come.”
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New York Times Book Review
“The most affecting stories in Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever are as unpredictable as a careening drunk. They leave us with the heavy residue of an unsettling strangeness, and a new voice that readers - and writers, too - might be seeking out for decades to come.”
—
New York Times Book Review
“The most affecting stories in Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever are as unpredictable as a careening drunk. They leave us with the heavy residue of an unsettling strangeness, and a new voice that readers - and writers, too - might be seeking out for decades to come.”
—
New York Times Book Review
“The most affecting stories in Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever are as unpredictable as a careening drunk. They leave us with the heavy residue of an unsettling strangeness, and a new voice that readers - and writers, too - might be seeking out for decades to come.”
—
New York Times Book Review
“The most affecting stories in Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever are as unpredictable as a careening drunk. They leave us with the heavy residue of an unsettling strangeness, and a new voice that readers - and writers, too - might be seeking out for decades to come.”
—
New York Times Book Review
“The most affecting stories in Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever are as unpredictable as a careening drunk. They leave us with the heavy residue of an unsettling strangeness, and a new voice that readers - and writers, too - might be seeking out for decades to come.”
—
New York Times Book Review
“The most affecting stories in Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever are as unpredictable as a careening drunk. They leave us with the heavy residue of an unsettling strangeness, and a new voice that readers - and writers, too - might be seeking out for decades to come.”
—
New York Times Book Review
“The most affecting stories in Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever are as unpredictable as a careening drunk. They leave us with the heavy residue of an unsettling strangeness, and a new voice that readers - and writers, too - might be seeking out for decades to come.”
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New York Times Book Review
“The most affecting stories in Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever are as unpredictable as a careening drunk. They leave us with the heavy residue of an unsettling strangeness, and a new voice that readers - and writers, too - might be seeking out for decades to come.”
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New York Times Book Review
“The world here is desolate, sexual, and its people are possessed of a brave cheer and do not whine. This is not quaint blue-collar realism but something entirely more honest. There is a debt paid to Donald Barthelme, gratifying to see, and a strange undertow of Philip Roth, which makes for a new literary beast. Mr. Taylor has perfect touch, to frightening effect, does not presume, has power, and promises us new things.”
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Padgett Powell, author of The Interrogative Mood
“The world here is desolate, sexual, and its people are possessed of a brave cheer and do not whine. This is not quaint blue-collar realism but something entirely more honest. There is a debt paid to Donald Barthelme, gratifying to see, and a strange undertow of Philip Roth, which makes for a new literary beast. Mr. Taylor has perfect touch, to frightening effect, does not presume, has power, and promises us new things.”
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Padgett Powell, author of The Interrogative Mood
“The world here is desolate, sexual, and its people are possessed of a brave cheer and do not whine. This is not quaint blue-collar realism but something entirely more honest. There is a debt paid to Donald Barthelme, gratifying to see, and a strange undertow of Philip Roth, which makes for a new literary beast. Mr. Taylor has perfect touch, to frightening effect, does not presume, has power, and promises us new things.”
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Padgett Powell, author of The Interrogative Mood
“The world here is desolate, sexual, and its people are possessed of a brave cheer and do not whine. This is not quaint blue-collar realism but something entirely more honest. There is a debt paid to Donald Barthelme, gratifying to see, and a strange undertow of Philip Roth, which makes for a new literary beast. Mr. Taylor has perfect touch, to frightening effect, does not presume, has power, and promises us new things.”
—
Padgett Powell, author of The Interrogative Mood
“The world here is desolate, sexual, and its people are possessed of a brave cheer and do not whine. This is not quaint blue-collar realism but something entirely more honest. There is a debt paid to Donald Barthelme, gratifying to see, and a strange undertow of Philip Roth, which makes for a new literary beast. Mr. Taylor has perfect touch, to frightening effect, does not presume, has power, and promises us new things.”
—
Padgett Powell, author of The Interrogative Mood
“The world here is desolate, sexual, and its people are possessed of a brave cheer and do not whine. This is not quaint blue-collar realism but something entirely more honest. There is a debt paid to Donald Barthelme, gratifying to see, and a strange undertow of Philip Roth, which makes for a new literary beast. Mr. Taylor has perfect touch, to frightening effect, does not presume, has power, and promises us new things.”
—
Padgett Powell, author of The Interrogative Mood
“The world here is desolate, sexual, and its people are possessed of a brave cheer and do not whine. This is not quaint blue-collar realism but something entirely more honest. There is a debt paid to Donald Barthelme, gratifying to see, and a strange undertow of Philip Roth, which makes for a new literary beast. Mr. Taylor has perfect touch, to frightening effect, does not presume, has power, and promises us new things.”
—
Padgett Powell, author of The Interrogative Mood
“The world here is desolate, sexual, and its people are possessed of a brave cheer and do not whine. This is not quaint blue-collar realism but something entirely more honest. There is a debt paid to Donald Barthelme, gratifying to see, and a strange undertow of Philip Roth, which makes for a new literary beast. Mr. Taylor has perfect touch, to frightening effect, does not presume, has power, and promises us new things.”
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Padgett Powell, author of The Interrogative Mood
“The characters in Justin Taylor’s stories may be lost, unmoored, out of control—though they stubbornly refuse to despair of their own survival. But their creator is astonishingly sure-handed. Neither a sentimentalist nor a facile purveyor of emptiness, he unerringly locates the center of these centerless lives, and discerns the shape of their shapelessness.”
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David Gates, author of Jernigan
“The characters in Justin Taylor’s stories may be lost, unmoored, out of control—though they stubbornly refuse to despair of their own survival. But their creator is astonishingly sure-handed. Neither a sentimentalist nor a facile purveyor of emptiness, he unerringly locates the center of these centerless lives, and discerns the shape of their shapelessness.”
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David Gates, author of Jernigan
“The characters in Justin Taylor’s stories may be lost, unmoored, out of control—though they stubbornly refuse to despair of their own survival. But their creator is astonishingly sure-handed. Neither a sentimentalist nor a facile purveyor of emptiness, he unerringly locates the center of these centerless lives, and discerns the shape of their shapelessness.”
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David Gates, author of Jernigan
“The characters in Justin Taylor’s stories may be lost, unmoored, out of control—though they stubbornly refuse to despair of their own survival. But their creator is astonishingly sure-handed. Neither a sentimentalist nor a facile purveyor of emptiness, he unerringly locates the center of these centerless lives, and discerns the shape of their shapelessness.”
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David Gates, author of Jernigan
“The characters in Justin Taylor’s stories may be lost, unmoored, out of control—though they stubbornly refuse to despair of their own survival. But their creator is astonishingly sure-handed. Neither a sentimentalist nor a facile purveyor of emptiness, he unerringly locates the center of these centerless lives, and discerns the shape of their shapelessness.”
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David Gates, author of Jernigan
“The characters in Justin Taylor’s stories may be lost, unmoored, out of control—though they stubbornly refuse to despair of their own survival. But their creator is astonishingly sure-handed. Neither a sentimentalist nor a facile purveyor of emptiness, he unerringly locates the center of these centerless lives, and discerns the shape of their shapelessness.”
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David Gates, author of Jernigan
“The characters in Justin Taylor’s stories may be lost, unmoored, out of control—though they stubbornly refuse to despair of their own survival. But their creator is astonishingly sure-handed. Neither a sentimentalist nor a facile purveyor of emptiness, he unerringly locates the center of these centerless lives, and discerns the shape of their shapelessness.”
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David Gates, author of Jernigan
“The characters in Justin Taylor’s stories may be lost, unmoored, out of control—though they stubbornly refuse to despair of their own survival. But their creator is astonishingly sure-handed. Neither a sentimentalist nor a facile purveyor of emptiness, he unerringly locates the center of these centerless lives, and discerns the shape of their shapelessness.”
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David Gates, author of Jernigan
“Mr. Taylor has perfect touch, to frightening effect, does not presume, has power, and promises us new things. There is a debt paid to Donald Barthelme...and a strange undertow of Philip Roth, which makes for a new literary beast.”
—
Padgett Powell, author of The Interrogative Mood
“Mr. Taylor has perfect touch, to frightening effect, does not presume, has power, and promises us new things. There is a debt paid to Donald Barthelme...and a strange undertow of Philip Roth, which makes for a new literary beast.”
—
Padgett Powell, author of The Interrogative Mood
“Mr. Taylor has perfect touch, to frightening effect, does not presume, has power, and promises us new things. There is a debt paid to Donald Barthelme...and a strange undertow of Philip Roth, which makes for a new literary beast.”
—
Padgett Powell, author of The Interrogative Mood
“Mr. Taylor has perfect touch, to frightening effect, does not presume, has power, and promises us new things. There is a debt paid to Donald Barthelme...and a strange undertow of Philip Roth, which makes for a new literary beast.”
—
Padgett Powell, author of The Interrogative Mood
“Mr. Taylor has perfect touch, to frightening effect, does not presume, has power, and promises us new things. There is a debt paid to Donald Barthelme...and a strange undertow of Philip Roth, which makes for a new literary beast.”
—
Padgett Powell, author of The Interrogative Mood
“Mr. Taylor has perfect touch, to frightening effect, does not presume, has power, and promises us new things. There is a debt paid to Donald Barthelme...and a strange undertow of Philip Roth, which makes for a new literary beast.”
—
Padgett Powell, author of The Interrogative Mood
“Mr. Taylor has perfect touch, to frightening effect, does not presume, has power, and promises us new things. There is a debt paid to Donald Barthelme...and a strange undertow of Philip Roth, which makes for a new literary beast.”
—
Padgett Powell, author of The Interrogative Mood
“Mr. Taylor has perfect touch, to frightening effect, does not presume, has power, and promises us new things. There is a debt paid to Donald Barthelme...and a strange undertow of Philip Roth, which makes for a new literary beast.”
—
Padgett Powell, author of The Interrogative Mood
“The characters in Justin Taylor’s stories may be lost, unmoored, out of control, but their creator is astonishingly sure-handed. He unerringly locates the center of these centerless lives, and discerns the shape of their shapelessness.”
—
David Gates, author of Jernigan
“The characters in Justin Taylor’s stories may be lost, unmoored, out of control, but their creator is astonishingly sure-handed. He unerringly locates the center of these centerless lives, and discerns the shape of their shapelessness.”
—
David Gates, author of Jernigan
“The characters in Justin Taylor’s stories may be lost, unmoored, out of control, but their creator is astonishingly sure-handed. He unerringly locates the center of these centerless lives, and discerns the shape of their shapelessness.”
—
David Gates, author of Jernigan
“The characters in Justin Taylor’s stories may be lost, unmoored, out of control, but their creator is astonishingly sure-handed. He unerringly locates the center of these centerless lives, and discerns the shape of their shapelessness.”
—
David Gates, author of Jernigan
“The characters in Justin Taylor’s stories may be lost, unmoored, out of control, but their creator is astonishingly sure-handed. He unerringly locates the center of these centerless lives, and discerns the shape of their shapelessness.”
—
David Gates, author of Jernigan
“The characters in Justin Taylor’s stories may be lost, unmoored, out of control, but their creator is astonishingly sure-handed. He unerringly locates the center of these centerless lives, and discerns the shape of their shapelessness.”
—
David Gates, author of Jernigan
“The characters in Justin Taylor’s stories may be lost, unmoored, out of control, but their creator is astonishingly sure-handed. He unerringly locates the center of these centerless lives, and discerns the shape of their shapelessness.”
—
David Gates, author of Jernigan
“The characters in Justin Taylor’s stories may be lost, unmoored, out of control, but their creator is astonishingly sure-handed. He unerringly locates the center of these centerless lives, and discerns the shape of their shapelessness.”
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David Gates, author of Jernigan
“Taylor’s superb debut short story collection is explorative and fresh with well-crafted empathic characters....Each story is spare and clean and speaks the truth in beautiful resonant prose.”
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Publishers Weekly
“Taylor’s superb debut short story collection is explorative and fresh with well-crafted empathic characters....Each story is spare and clean and speaks the truth in beautiful resonant prose.”
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Publishers Weekly
“Taylor’s superb debut short story collection is explorative and fresh with well-crafted empathic characters....Each story is spare and clean and speaks the truth in beautiful resonant prose.”
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Publishers Weekly
“Taylor’s superb debut short story collection is explorative and fresh with well-crafted empathic characters....Each story is spare and clean and speaks the truth in beautiful resonant prose.”
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Publishers Weekly
“Taylor’s superb debut short story collection is explorative and fresh with well-crafted empathic characters....Each story is spare and clean and speaks the truth in beautiful resonant prose.”
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Publishers Weekly
“Taylor’s superb debut short story collection is explorative and fresh with well-crafted empathic characters....Each story is spare and clean and speaks the truth in beautiful resonant prose.”
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Publishers Weekly
“Taylor’s superb debut short story collection is explorative and fresh with well-crafted empathic characters....Each story is spare and clean and speaks the truth in beautiful resonant prose.”
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Publishers Weekly
“Taylor’s superb debut short story collection is explorative and fresh with well-crafted empathic characters....Each story is spare and clean and speaks the truth in beautiful resonant prose.”
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Publishers Weekly
“Taylor’s characters would like for time to both speed up and slow down - an impossible, inevitable wish that makes the moments he captures worth savoring.”
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BookForum
“Taylor’s characters would like for time to both speed up and slow down - an impossible, inevitable wish that makes the moments he captures worth savoring.”
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BookForum
“Taylor’s characters would like for time to both speed up and slow down - an impossible, inevitable wish that makes the moments he captures worth savoring.”
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BookForum
“Taylor’s characters would like for time to both speed up and slow down - an impossible, inevitable wish that makes the moments he captures worth savoring.”
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BookForum
“Taylor’s characters would like for time to both speed up and slow down - an impossible, inevitable wish that makes the moments he captures worth savoring.”
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BookForum
“Taylor’s characters would like for time to both speed up and slow down - an impossible, inevitable wish that makes the moments he captures worth savoring.”
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BookForum
“Taylor’s characters would like for time to both speed up and slow down - an impossible, inevitable wish that makes the moments he captures worth savoring.”
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BookForum
“Taylor’s characters would like for time to both speed up and slow down - an impossible, inevitable wish that makes the moments he captures worth savoring.”
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BookForum
“These stories of Gen Y, told with panache, dark humor, and technical flash will delight short fiction fans of all ages.”
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Booklist
“These stories of Gen Y, told with panache, dark humor, and technical flash will delight short fiction fans of all ages.”
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Booklist
“These stories of Gen Y, told with panache, dark humor, and technical flash will delight short fiction fans of all ages.”
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Booklist
“These stories of Gen Y, told with panache, dark humor, and technical flash will delight short fiction fans of all ages.”
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Booklist
“These stories of Gen Y, told with panache, dark humor, and technical flash will delight short fiction fans of all ages.”
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Booklist
“These stories of Gen Y, told with panache, dark humor, and technical flash will delight short fiction fans of all ages.”
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Booklist
“These stories of Gen Y, told with panache, dark humor, and technical flash will delight short fiction fans of all ages.”
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Booklist
“These stories of Gen Y, told with panache, dark humor, and technical flash will delight short fiction fans of all ages.”
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Booklist
“Whether Taylor is exploring youth, human bonds or fantastical scenarios, he displays a gift for illuminating the connections between the mundane and the grotesque.”
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Time Out New York
“Whether Taylor is exploring youth, human bonds or fantastical scenarios, he displays a gift for illuminating the connections between the mundane and the grotesque.”
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Time Out New York
“Whether Taylor is exploring youth, human bonds or fantastical scenarios, he displays a gift for illuminating the connections between the mundane and the grotesque.”
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Time Out New York
“Whether Taylor is exploring youth, human bonds or fantastical scenarios, he displays a gift for illuminating the connections between the mundane and the grotesque.”
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Time Out New York
“Whether Taylor is exploring youth, human bonds or fantastical scenarios, he displays a gift for illuminating the connections between the mundane and the grotesque.”
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Time Out New York
“Whether Taylor is exploring youth, human bonds or fantastical scenarios, he displays a gift for illuminating the connections between the mundane and the grotesque.”
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Time Out New York
“Whether Taylor is exploring youth, human bonds or fantastical scenarios, he displays a gift for illuminating the connections between the mundane and the grotesque.”
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Time Out New York
“Whether Taylor is exploring youth, human bonds or fantastical scenarios, he displays a gift for illuminating the connections between the mundane and the grotesque.”
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Time Out New York
“There’s something of a frustrated chuckle at play, which is how Taylor manages to avoid … cynicism and imbue his characters with that slight glimmer of hope.”
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Time Out Chicago
“There’s something of a frustrated chuckle at play, which is how Taylor manages to avoid … cynicism and imbue his characters with that slight glimmer of hope.”
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Time Out Chicago
“There’s something of a frustrated chuckle at play, which is how Taylor manages to avoid … cynicism and imbue his characters with that slight glimmer of hope.”
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Time Out Chicago
“There’s something of a frustrated chuckle at play, which is how Taylor manages to avoid … cynicism and imbue his characters with that slight glimmer of hope.”
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Time Out Chicago
“There’s something of a frustrated chuckle at play, which is how Taylor manages to avoid … cynicism and imbue his characters with that slight glimmer of hope.”
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Time Out Chicago
“There’s something of a frustrated chuckle at play, which is how Taylor manages to avoid … cynicism and imbue his characters with that slight glimmer of hope.”
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Time Out Chicago
“There’s something of a frustrated chuckle at play, which is how Taylor manages to avoid … cynicism and imbue his characters with that slight glimmer of hope.”
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Time Out Chicago
“There’s something of a frustrated chuckle at play, which is how Taylor manages to avoid … cynicism and imbue his characters with that slight glimmer of hope.”
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Time Out Chicago
“Beautiful lines leap from the pages, and we gladly enter Taylor’s vivid world, even as it transforms what we know about ourselves and others into something slippery and ever-changing.”
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Penthouse
“Beautiful lines leap from the pages, and we gladly enter Taylor’s vivid world, even as it transforms what we know about ourselves and others into something slippery and ever-changing.”
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Penthouse
“Beautiful lines leap from the pages, and we gladly enter Taylor’s vivid world, even as it transforms what we know about ourselves and others into something slippery and ever-changing.”
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Penthouse
“Beautiful lines leap from the pages, and we gladly enter Taylor’s vivid world, even as it transforms what we know about ourselves and others into something slippery and ever-changing.”
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Penthouse
“Beautiful lines leap from the pages, and we gladly enter Taylor’s vivid world, even as it transforms what we know about ourselves and others into something slippery and ever-changing.”
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Penthouse
“Beautiful lines leap from the pages, and we gladly enter Taylor’s vivid world, even as it transforms what we know about ourselves and others into something slippery and ever-changing.”
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Penthouse
“Beautiful lines leap from the pages, and we gladly enter Taylor’s vivid world, even as it transforms what we know about ourselves and others into something slippery and ever-changing.”
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Penthouse
“Beautiful lines leap from the pages, and we gladly enter Taylor’s vivid world, even as it transforms what we know about ourselves and others into something slippery and ever-changing.”
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Penthouse
“Taylor’s flirtations with darkness can be illuminating.”
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
“Taylor’s flirtations with darkness can be illuminating.”
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
“Taylor’s flirtations with darkness can be illuminating.”
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
“Taylor’s flirtations with darkness can be illuminating.”
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
“Taylor’s flirtations with darkness can be illuminating.”
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
“Taylor’s flirtations with darkness can be illuminating.”
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
“Taylor’s flirtations with darkness can be illuminating.”
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
“Taylor’s flirtations with darkness can be illuminating.”
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
“Justin Taylor is a master of the modern snapshot.”
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Los Angeles Times
“Justin Taylor is a master of the modern snapshot.”
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Los Angeles Times
“Justin Taylor is a master of the modern snapshot.”
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Los Angeles Times
“Justin Taylor is a master of the modern snapshot.”
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Los Angeles Times
“Justin Taylor is a master of the modern snapshot.”
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Los Angeles Times
“Justin Taylor is a master of the modern snapshot.”
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Los Angeles Times
“Justin Taylor is a master of the modern snapshot.”
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Los Angeles Times
“Justin Taylor is a master of the modern snapshot.”
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Los Angeles Times
“Taylor flirts with poetic language, teasing us with lines so lusciously packed that even a tattoo’s description can set the page on fire.”
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Bookslut
“Taylor flirts with poetic language, teasing us with lines so lusciously packed that even a tattoo’s description can set the page on fire.”
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Bookslut
“Taylor flirts with poetic language, teasing us with lines so lusciously packed that even a tattoo’s description can set the page on fire.”
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Bookslut
“Taylor flirts with poetic language, teasing us with lines so lusciously packed that even a tattoo’s description can set the page on fire.”
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Bookslut
“Taylor flirts with poetic language, teasing us with lines so lusciously packed that even a tattoo’s description can set the page on fire.”
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Bookslut
“Taylor flirts with poetic language, teasing us with lines so lusciously packed that even a tattoo’s description can set the page on fire.”
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Bookslut
“Taylor flirts with poetic language, teasing us with lines so lusciously packed that even a tattoo’s description can set the page on fire.”
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Bookslut
“Taylor flirts with poetic language, teasing us with lines so lusciously packed that even a tattoo’s description can set the page on fire.”
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Bookslut
“His short, funky-feverish stories, with their startling turns and unresolved textures, feel a bit like the slightly overwrought Tumblr blog which Don B. would surely maintain, were he alive today.”
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L Magazine
“His short, funky-feverish stories, with their startling turns and unresolved textures, feel a bit like the slightly overwrought Tumblr blog which Don B. would surely maintain, were he alive today.”
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L Magazine
“His short, funky-feverish stories, with their startling turns and unresolved textures, feel a bit like the slightly overwrought Tumblr blog which Don B. would surely maintain, were he alive today.”
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L Magazine
“His short, funky-feverish stories, with their startling turns and unresolved textures, feel a bit like the slightly overwrought Tumblr blog which Don B. would surely maintain, were he alive today.”
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L Magazine
“His short, funky-feverish stories, with their startling turns and unresolved textures, feel a bit like the slightly overwrought Tumblr blog which Don B. would surely maintain, were he alive today.”
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L Magazine
“His short, funky-feverish stories, with their startling turns and unresolved textures, feel a bit like the slightly overwrought Tumblr blog which Don B. would surely maintain, were he alive today.”
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L Magazine
“His short, funky-feverish stories, with their startling turns and unresolved textures, feel a bit like the slightly overwrought Tumblr blog which Don B. would surely maintain, were he alive today.”
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L Magazine
“His short, funky-feverish stories, with their startling turns and unresolved textures, feel a bit like the slightly overwrought Tumblr blog which Don B. would surely maintain, were he alive today.”
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L Magazine
“Justin Taylor does irony and snark and thwarted idealism uncommonly well.”
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Huffington Post
“Justin Taylor does irony and snark and thwarted idealism uncommonly well.”
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Huffington Post
“Justin Taylor does irony and snark and thwarted idealism uncommonly well.”
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Huffington Post
“Justin Taylor does irony and snark and thwarted idealism uncommonly well.”
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Huffington Post
“Justin Taylor does irony and snark and thwarted idealism uncommonly well.”
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Huffington Post
“Justin Taylor does irony and snark and thwarted idealism uncommonly well.”
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Huffington Post
“Justin Taylor does irony and snark and thwarted idealism uncommonly well.”
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Huffington Post
“I’ll be surprised if we don’t find two standout pieces from this collection in prize-winning anthologies of 2010 short stories....Do we sense some sort of new fictional frontier?”
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Paste Magazine
“I’ll be surprised if we don’t find two standout pieces from this collection in prize-winning anthologies of 2010 short stories....Do we sense some sort of new fictional frontier?”
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Paste Magazine
“I’ll be surprised if we don’t find two standout pieces from this collection in prize-winning anthologies of 2010 short stories....Do we sense some sort of new fictional frontier?”
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Paste Magazine
“I’ll be surprised if we don’t find two standout pieces from this collection in prize-winning anthologies of 2010 short stories....Do we sense some sort of new fictional frontier?”
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Paste Magazine
“I’ll be surprised if we don’t find two standout pieces from this collection in prize-winning anthologies of 2010 short stories....Do we sense some sort of new fictional frontier?”
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Paste Magazine
“I’ll be surprised if we don’t find two standout pieces from this collection in prize-winning anthologies of 2010 short stories....Do we sense some sort of new fictional frontier?”
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Paste Magazine
“I’ll be surprised if we don’t find two standout pieces from this collection in prize-winning anthologies of 2010 short stories....Do we sense some sort of new fictional frontier?”
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Paste Magazine
“Dazzling...Taylor deftly captures the peculiar rhythms of the American vernacular.”
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SEE Magazine
“Dazzling...Taylor deftly captures the peculiar rhythms of the American vernacular.”
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SEE Magazine
“Dazzling...Taylor deftly captures the peculiar rhythms of the American vernacular.”
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SEE Magazine
“Dazzling...Taylor deftly captures the peculiar rhythms of the American vernacular.”
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SEE Magazine
“Dazzling...Taylor deftly captures the peculiar rhythms of the American vernacular.”
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SEE Magazine
“Dazzling...Taylor deftly captures the peculiar rhythms of the American vernacular.”
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SEE Magazine
“In his first book of short stories, Taylor hones a dark-humored and character-themed collection in the tradition of Mary Gaitskill’s Bad Behavior or Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son.”
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Oxford American
“In his first book of short stories, Taylor hones a dark-humored and character-themed collection in the tradition of Mary Gaitskill’s Bad Behavior or Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son.”
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Oxford American
“In his first book of short stories, Taylor hones a dark-humored and character-themed collection in the tradition of Mary Gaitskill’s Bad Behavior or Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son.”
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Oxford American
“In his first book of short stories, Taylor hones a dark-humored and character-themed collection in the tradition of Mary Gaitskill’s Bad Behavior or Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son.”
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Oxford American
“In his first book of short stories, Taylor hones a dark-humored and character-themed collection in the tradition of Mary Gaitskill’s Bad Behavior or Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son.”
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Oxford American
“In his first book of short stories, Taylor hones a dark-humored and character-themed collection in the tradition of Mary Gaitskill’s Bad Behavior or Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son.”
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Oxford American
“These short fictions by Justin Taylor give such a convincing account of the rough crossing of young adulthood that they practically induce seasickness. For his youthful protagonists, identity--emotional, intellectual, sexual--is unstable, constantly in motion.”
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Boston Globe
“These short fictions by Justin Taylor give such a convincing account of the rough crossing of young adulthood that they practically induce seasickness. For his youthful protagonists, identity--emotional, intellectual, sexual--is unstable, constantly in motion.”
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Boston Globe
“These short fictions by Justin Taylor give such a convincing account of the rough crossing of young adulthood that they practically induce seasickness. For his youthful protagonists, identity--emotional, intellectual, sexual--is unstable, constantly in motion.”
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Boston Globe
“These short fictions by Justin Taylor give such a convincing account of the rough crossing of young adulthood that they practically induce seasickness. For his youthful protagonists, identity--emotional, intellectual, sexual--is unstable, constantly in motion.”
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Boston Globe
“These short fictions by Justin Taylor give such a convincing account of the rough crossing of young adulthood that they practically induce seasickness. For his youthful protagonists, identity--emotional, intellectual, sexual--is unstable, constantly in motion.”
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Boston Globe
“These short fictions by Justin Taylor give such a convincing account of the rough crossing of young adulthood that they practically induce seasickness. For his youthful protagonists, identity--emotional, intellectual, sexual--is unstable, constantly in motion.”
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Boston Globe
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City of War
By Neil Russell
His enemies are the most dangerous people in the world. So are his friends . . . The sole heir to a media empire, Rail Black is larger than life, richer than almost anyone, and living in opulent seclusion in Beverly Hills. His "curse" is a need for excitement coupled with an oversized sense of...
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Final Target
By Steven Gore
A man lies unconscious in a hospital bed, the victim of a violent assault the police are calling "road rage." If he recovers, prosecutors are waiting to indict him for conspiracy, eager to send him to prison for the rest of his life. And he's the lucky one . . . Private investigator Graham Gage...
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Pride/Prejudice
By Ann Herendeen
For readers who've loved Jane Austen's most popular novel—the inestimable Pride and Prejudice —questions have always remained. What is the real nature of Darcy's intense friendship with Charles Bingley, to explain why he would prevent Bingley's marriage to Elizabeth's beautiful and...
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