What he said

In a review of Edward Jones' new short story collection, Jonathan Yardley eloquently captures what I dislike about modern American letters, and at the same time makes me want this collection.

...he is one of the few contemporary American writers of literary fiction who is more interested in the world around him than he is in himself, with the happy result that he has much to tell us about ourselves and how we live now.

He has this to say about Jones' first collection:

Lost in the City turned out to be one of those exceptionally rare books -- in my 40-year reviewing career, there have been perhaps a dozen -- that come from nowhere to leave one astonished and delighted.