Something for Everyone

What do you want? I ask him in the dining room. They all said about his mother, the Irish whiskey heiress, traipsing from bank to bank, raising the money. They said her dresses and her red hair. (Marconi) I've stated before that Lisa Moore simply speaks my language – from her intriguing turns of phr......more

Lisa Moore’s short fiction collection, Something for Everyone, is nothing less than a virtuoso performance, a grouping of incisive modern-day tales that propels the reader through a splintered, emotionally simmering, non-linear reality that is always surprising and often shocking. Moore plays with s......more

Something for Everyone taught me a few things about my preferences in literature. I finished the first story, didn't much care for it and then looked on the back of the book where it described Lisa Moore as a celebrated stylist. Not totally sure what a it meant to be a stylist writer, I looked it up......more

''Women must obey the curfew, stay inside when it gets dark. Unless they wanted the rapist to catch them Unless they wanted a blade at their throat Unless they wanted to collapse in the emergency room Unless they wanted the cuts and bruises photographed Unless they wanted to be asked what they were doing......more

In true Lisa Moore style, Something for Everyone is powerful, human, and truly gutting in its emotional depth. Moore can write a sentence like no other, making each one count. The stories themselves weave and drift, creating intense atmosphere and emotionality, and sometimes a sense of disconnect. W......more