What Did You Do Today? (Volume 22)

by Anthony Varallo

The stories in What Did You Do Today? explore the ordinary and the offbeat as if they were one and the same, asking what it’s like to be alive and what makes us human. With warmth, humor, and wonder, these stories suggest that the past is always alive in the present and that even the most fleeting relationships have the power to change us forever. In these short narratives, nothing is negligible, and all experience is transformative.
 

224 pages, Paperback

Published November 22, 2023

About the author

Anthony Varallo is the author What Did You Do Today?, winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction, forthcoming from the University of North Texas Press in Fall 2023. He is also the author of a novel, The Lines, as well as four previous short story collections: This Day in History, winner of the John Simmons Short Fiction Award; Out Loud, winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize; Think of Me and I'll Know (TriQuarterly Books); and Everyone Was There, winner of the Elixir Press Fiction Award.

Currently he is professor of English at the College of Charleston, where he teaches in the MFA program in Creative Writing.

Reviews

[Yousuf Azhar · Rating 5 out of 5]

So many funny and clever stories in this book. I throughly enjoyed all of them.

[Brian Bruno · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some fun short stories that I found related to my own experiences in some ways.