"The current volume of posthumous stories is the work of a master, a writer's writer– but a reader's too– an incomparable craftsman who wrote, let it be said, some of the finest stories in our language." –Newsweek
"All in all they comprise the best collection of shorter fiction to have been published in America during the past twenty years." –
Theodore Solotaroff, Book Week "When I read Flannery O'Connor, I do not think of Hemingway, or Katherine Anne Porter, or Sartre, but rather of someone like Sophocles. What more can you say for a writer? I write her name with honor, for all the truth and all the craft with which she shows man's fall and his dishonor." –
Thomas Merton
