Assorted Fire Events Stories

David Means is the author of A Quick Kiss of Redemption, The Secret Goldfish, and The Spot. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, Zoetrope, McSweeney's, Best American Short Stories, Ecotone, and Best American Mysteries. He lives in Nyack, New York, and teaches at Vassar College.

“The roll-call of honor, from Eudora Welty to John Cheever, John Updike, William Maxwell, to Richard Ford, Tobias Wolff, and Annie Proulx is long and rich. Just when it seems that things could get no better, along comes David Means.” —Eileen Battersby, The Irish Times

“Achingly intelligent . . . With his jump-cut shifts, startling connections and breathtaking disconnections, the author stands among our most gifted younger writers. Distinctively, though, he anneals his cutting-edge irony into a compassionate anger that goes beyond the literary times. In a word he might disdain to use, it is timeless. —Richard Eder, The New York Times

“It is Means’s signature talent to view the lives of his characters, and life itself, from somewhere just beyond, in a position of maximum understanding and honorable detachment. A semi-divine vantage point for the examination of hopelessly human affairs.” —Jeffrey Eugenides, author of Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides

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