Rex Bonomelli This week in The New York Times Book Review, J. Robert Lennon admires Jamie Quatro’s collection of stories, “I Want to Show You More,†calling it “an obsessive first collection that feels like a fifth or sixth.†Mr. Lennon writes:
It is a dogged, brutally thoughtful piece of work, and gives us a writer of great originality and apparent artistic maturity who seems to have come out of nowhere. Each story draws from a small pool of particular and unexpectedly resonant themes â€" Christianity, marital infidelity, cancer, running â€" and examines and recombines them with impressive agility and inventiveness. It is a strange, thrilling and disarmingly honest piece of work.
On this week’s podcast, Ms. Quatro talks about her book; Leslie Kaufman has notes from the field; Carlene Bauer discusses her first novel, “Frances and Bernardâ€; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
