14 Stories

I loved this book, even though I had to teach it to an undergraduate literature class..at JHU where Dixon also teaches/taught. Dixon writes a ton of stuff, and he belongs to the category of author who is coming out with more and more and more. I haven't read more recent stuff (Steve, please give us a breather!), but I'm sure it's equally inspiring/zany/experimental/hit-or-miss/frantic/existential/eclectic. But getting back to this volume. My students, who normally resented having to read books by profs at their university, just loved this little volume to death, and so did I. These stories were light-hearted, easy to read, clever and full of memorable lines and characters. I really have no basis for declaring it to be the best of Dixon's s.s. collections, but it's the best out of the ones I'd encountered pre-1995. BTW, the joke of the book is that the volume actually contains 13 (not 14) stories.