James's review
You Are Not a Stranger Here: Stories by Adam Haslett
These stories are gruesome and tender in a really hard-to-define way. My favorites, like "Notes for My Biographer," stretch reality and mess around with form. Even when the characters reach really bizarre extremes, of mania or depression or self-loathing, they are never unsympathetic. It's a great sample of what you can do with a short story, and it pushes "gay literature" in directions I really like.
