Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore

Praise

BBC Culture’s Best Books of the Year
Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year, Best Short Fiction 

“To read Moore’s stories is to feel the ecstatic, terrifying lightning zot of being alive.” —LIT HUB

“Moore’s writing contains multitudes . . . There really is no one quite like her.” —THE NEW REPUBLIC
 
“Superb . . . Moore is a short story superstar, a wily wordsmith, an extraordinary empath. In a few short pages—sometimes in just a few words—she is able to evoke essentially everything about the characters she conjures . . . vast yet intimate . . . Moore’s stories have a way of burrowing into the head and the heart and taking up residence there, reverberating like a startled laugh or a stifled sob. This expansive, exquisite collection cements Moore’s standing as one of the greatest short story writers of our time.” —KIRKUS (starred review)

“Extraordinary . . . Moore’s construction of a sentence, a paragraph, a page, is rarely less than exhilarating . . . There is a moral nobility to Moore’s assertion that even the least brilliant of lives deserve to be brilliantly documented . . . Moore does not make us feel better; she hurts us. But she hurts us in vital, generous ways, and it is testament to the brilliance of her writing that we let her.” —THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
  
 “One of the finest short story writers in the country.” —LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS
 
“Lorrie Moore’s writing is strange and wonderful. It should be among anyone’s top reasons for being alive.” —POPMATTERS
 
“Here is why one reads Moore: the terse, true polish of her emotional wisdom.”  —THE BOSTON GLOBE 
 
“Her stories, her stories, are perfect.” —SLATE
 
“The sharpness, clarity, and wit of Moore’s voice was evident from the very beginning of her writing life . . . How lucky we are that we have Lorrie Moore’s voice to reflect this lunatic world back to us and show us how to see it in all its devastating hilarity.” —from the Introduction by Lauren Groff