contemporary fiction

Work Is a Funny Thing in Adelle Waldman’s ‘Help Wanted’

Work Is a Funny Thing in Adelle Waldman’s ‘Help Wanted’

Nickel and Dimed meets a suburban big box store in Adelle Waldman’s unexpectedly humorous, dystopian workplace caper, Help Wanted.

Dark Desperation and Humor in ‘The Price of the Haircut’

Dark Desperation and Humor in ‘The Price of the Haircut’

Parts Donald Barthelme, Richard Powers, and George Saunders, Brock Clarke has distinguished himself as a writer fully in control of his ideas.