Status Updates From Progress of Stories: A New,...

High modernism? Proto-postmodernism (heh)? L(J)R is ahead of her time, no doubt. GR friends, I implore you: pick this up.

Thanks to a throwaway comment from Silverblatt heard several years ago in God knows what context. Dubliners also currently on my sidetable. L(R)J is in the lead.

Riding accepts no excuses from her readers and will outright insult us to chase away the narrowheads. At times I start to hate a story but inevitably get smacked with its brilliance. I cannot think of a more better collection of short stories, unless I concede to shrunken definitions that do not allow for the possibilities these stories present.