Wayne Grady’s most recent book, the brilliantly covered classic short stories collected in The Cartel and Other Cover Stories have been reviewed this week in the Literary Review of Canada.
Certainly the short story lends itself well to interpretive manipulation. Swap a setting, compress an ending, reorient a quarrel from an undersung point of view: et voilà! Grady isn’t the first to rejig a Nikolai Gogol. What sets this collection apart is its generous versatility, the cumulative fusion of fiction and gloss.
Read the full review here.