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A Year in Reading: Daniel Orozco 3

Some of his narrators are deluded, arrogant assholes, but man, do they try (and fail) not to be.

A Year in Reading: Michael Schaub 5

The Great Frustration is a debut, but it’s also something most writers, even the most acclaimed ones, have never accomplished: it is a perfect short story collection. It’s also the best book I read in 2011.

After the Violence, Life: Alan Heathcock's Volt 1

Volt, set primarily in the fictional Midwest town of Krafton and dipping into different decades of the 20th century, evokes Tim Gautreaux, Daniel Woodrell, and Breece D’J Pancake.