globeandmail.com: A short-story master rediscovered

globeandmail.com: A short-story master rediscovered: "Raymond Chandler once wrote 'there are two kinds of writers; writers who write stories and writers who write writing.' The stories of the late American author Leonard Michaels (1933-2003), now collected in a single volume for the first time, put Chandler's theory to a ferocious test. Gathering material from Michaels's 1969 debut, Going Places, up to his last stories, unavailable since they appeared in The New Yorker, Best American Stories and elsewhere, this posthumous collection charts the evolution of an inventive, curious and ribald writer."