The Village Voice calls Jim Shepard a “pointillist master of middle-American disaffection, second-shoe-dropping comic rhythm, pop-cult radiation, and the deceivingly unsimple art of inarticulation.” Shepard is the author of six novels and four story collections – including the newly published You Think That’s Bad, about which The New York Times raves: “If ventriloquism is a lost art, Mr. Shepard has found it. In these 13 short stories he shows he can move the lips of anyone.” Shepard’s third collection, Like You’d Understand, Anyway, was a finalist for the National Book Award and won The Story Prize. Project X won the 2005 Library of Congress/Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction, as well as the ALEX Award from the American Library Association. His short fiction has appeared in, Harper’s, McSweeney’s, The Paris Review, New Yorker and Granta, among others. Four of his stories have been chosen for the Best American Short Stories series and one for a Pushcart Prize. The New York Times praises Shepard as “a fiction writer of peculiar but tantalizing gifts.” Read Less
The Village Voice calls Jim Shepard a “pointillist master of middle-American disaffection, second-shoe-dropping comic rhythm, pop-cult radiation, and the deceivingly unsimple art of inarticulation.” Shepard is the author of six novels and four story collections – including the newly published You Think That’s Bad, about which The New York Times raves: “If ventriloquism is a lost art, Mr. Shepard has found it. In... Read More
