She Loves Me Not
New and Selected Stories

I loved Mariette in Ecstasy so I was disappointed to find this collection mostly underwhelming, with the exception of Wilde in Omaha, Wickedness, The Sparrow, and The Sleepwalker.......more

During the late 1990s, I wanted to buy Ron Hansen’s 1989 short story collection "Nebraska." Hansen and I grew up in the Midwest, albeit several hundred miles apart, but I was curious as to what he had to say about his native state of Nebraska. This was before the Internet and amazon.com, and I coul......more

As a man who has wept over the death of a dog, it is no small challenge to proclaim that Ron Hansen has penned perhaps the most hilarious story ever written about such an occurrence. It may be the only one to take that approach. And yet. And yet "My Kid's Dog" is probably not the first or most import......more

Hard to rate this one. He's obviously a good writer and his mastery of language is impressive. The stories are interesting and engaging, but they are quite quirky, too much so for my personal taste. He seems to be doing sort of a collage technique in some that is intriguing but, for me, not as satis......more

Am I the only one that thinks a story should have a narrative arc, some sort of plot? The stories in this book don't seem to have much in the way of plots and that makes them tedious.......more