Praise for Michael Coffey "Riveting. . . . Vibrant and unsparing." --Publishers Weekly (starred and boxed review) "Superb. . . . Startlingly original and at times darkly funny. . . . [Coffey's] characters are as flawed and complicated as they are recognizable and sympathetic; all fiction readers can enjoy." --Library Journal(starred review) "Well-crafted stories, thick with literary references. . . . Carefully chiseled. . . Sober and smart writing that evokes the more mannered American stylists of the 1960s and '70s." --Kirkus Reviews

MICHAEL COFFEY, formerly the co-editorial director of Publishers Weekly, is the author of several books of poems, a book about baseball's perfect games, a book of short stories, and another about Irish immigration to America--which together paint a fairly good portrait of his central interests. His last book, The Business of Naming Things (a short story collection) was a Library Journal top pick for fall/winter fiction titles from independent presses, an Amazon Top 10 pick in literary fiction for the month of January, and a PW "Big Indie Book" and "Best Book of the Week." He lives with his wife in Manhattan and in upstate New York, where he was raised.