Lorrie Moore, April 12
b'The public and private absurdities of American life, dramatic irony, and enduring half-cracked love wend their way through the stories in a heartrending mash-up of the tragic and the laugh-out-loud. \\n\\n"Will stand by itself as one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerability." The New York Times Book Review (cover review). \\n\\nMoore is an award-winning author and the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. Her works include the story collections "Birds of America" and "Self-Help," and the novels "Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?" and "A Gate at the Stairs."'