This is the first collection by the mostly novelist Richard Yates. This collection has that feel of a first collection, paired as it were, with the first release of a novel as well. And what is successful about this collection is whether or not intended, the effect is that of a whole collection with a set of familiar and consistent theme or at least motifs running through the stories. The stories in part feel a lot like the kinds of New Yorker style, post MFA […]