Liars in Love This is the second collection of short stories by Richard Yates and compared to the first collection, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, the quality is as good an probably better, but there’s a clear distinction in terms of form, execution, and style here. For one, these stories are less the kinds of slices of life and vignettes expanded to stories that that first collection was and more so more rounded out stories, almost no punchiness at all, and a clearer focus and maturity in […]
“When Franklin D roosevelt was President-elect there must have been sculptors all over America who wanted a chance to model his head from life, but my mother had connections.”
Liars in the Love by Richard Yates
Uncollected Stories by Richard Yates