The Consummation of Dirk

Winner of the eighth Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction, as selected by final judge Zachary Mason.

"The stories in this collection have the texture of the long bad nights that one keeps to oneself and is prone to think no one else experienced. The gifted children contemplating murder, the husband drowning in melancholy, the pro basketball athlete finding his road to Damascus all emerge from adept torrents of words that bear comparison with Virginia Woolf and David Foster Wallace."—Zach...