Jim Shepard

Kiss of the Wolf (1995)

It took me a moment to get into Kiss of the Wolf although I already had read enough of Shepard's shorter stories to know I liked his writing style. I think the problem was my inability to connect with his characters early on. Indeed, even by the end of KotW, I still felt that these people were ...

Paper Doll (1988)

Project X (2005)

In the aftermath of the Columbine High School Shootings in 1999, countless reporters and commentators repeated similar versions of the same phrase over and over again: "People are wondering how something like this could happen."Jim Shepard knows.Project X is one of the few books that has ever hon...

Love and Hydrogen: New and Selected Stories (2004)

Lights Out in the Reptile House (1990)

"Take for example the prisoner who was sitting here yesterday recording the session. What he intuited some time a go was that there was nothing a man wouldn't do to save himself, and having saved himself, there was nothing he wouldn't do for increasingly tirvial reasons, and that eventually he fi...

Flights (1984)