Review: When I Was Young and In My Prime

Originally published in The Danforth Review, 2005.

American writer Barry Yourgrau begins his stories as concisely as "I go to sea.  For various reasons, I fall overboard."  His modern fables are sharp and amusing, but suffer a little from a kind of self-conscious cleverness.  Alayna Munce, in writing When I Was Young and In My Prime, demonstrates she's no less interested in being concise and in the scattered, essential moments — the stepping-stones in a life.  It's only fair to say the two...