"I'm getting a poignant shiver from the novella 'Walt Kaplan Is Broke, ' which closes Peter Orner's terrific new story collection, Maggie Brown and Others, and features a coronary patient taking stock of his long, mostly happy marriage...There's a lot of affection in that story, and in all of Orner's characteristically generous work...In this collection of forty-four compressed stories, and one novella, about blue-collar men and women and lives that didn't quite pan out, Orner maintains his reputation as a master of the form."–Gregory Cowles, New York Times Book Review, Ten New Books We Recommend This Week