Twilight of the short story writers
New York Times reporter Dinitia Smith has turned in a nice profile of short story writer Deborah Eisenberg, whose latest collection, Twilight of the Superheroes, has just come out. It was a long time coming, though. Eisenberg says it took eight years for her to write the six stories in the collection. But Smith writes that “Eisenberg has reached the pinnacle of what has become a lonely genre.” For confirmation of that last point, the Times writer then turns to Sessalee Hensley, the fiction buyer for Barnes & Noble, who says, “’short story collections don’t generally sell well.’ Still, referring to Ms. Eisenberg’s collection, she said, ‘I’m not thinking this will recharge the form, but I’m hoping this will bring Deborah Eisenberg to a wider audience because I think she is a great writer.’”
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