Though he tends to view the relationships between men and women through a shadowy, melodramatic prism, he is adept, when he wants to be, at showing the day-to-day stresses and consolations of marriage and mapping the mutations of love over time.” ~Michiko Kakutani, writing in The New York Times“The short stories collected in Ladies and Gentlemen—less dazzling than Mr. Ross possess glittering powers of description and a heat-seeking eye for emotional and physical detail, but he’s also able to capture the way people talk today with fluency and panache. It’s also why Kirkus, which gave the book a starred review in May, has now listed it as Best Fiction of 2011 pick for short-story collections.Here’s a quick survey of other critical responses to Ladies and Gentlemen:“One of Ross’ great strengths is walking that eternally fine line between showing the reader things—a bloody fistfight between brothers, or a Twilight Zone-esque reveal—and the heartbeat monitoring of a character’s internal life.” ~ Kirkus Reviews“Not only does Mr. Ross’s extraordinary gifts as a writer and the limitations of his willfully bleak view of human nature.”The way this small collection with very great aims has inspired comparisons to universally acknowledged masters of the craft is only one of the reasons Ross was interviewed this year by the luminaries of literary journalism, including Stephen Usery at WYPL in Memphis, John Siegenthaler for PBS’s A Word on Words, and WNYC’s Leonard Lopate.
But the stories are too riveting to abandon, the kind that make you ignore repeated calls to dinner.” ~Dean Bakopoulos, writing in The New York Times Book Review“ Ladies and Gentlemen is not a linked collection (such books, like Olive Kitteridge, have been in vogue recently) and is all the better for it. Reading them, you often want to leave the room before things get out of hand. … hese are all-enveloping tales, well paced, tense and driven by effortless prose. To say that the author isn’t pretzeled by framing devices is not to say he employs none: many of the characters in these stories collect other people’s anecdotes—in fact, they seem to feed on them.” ~Henry Stewart, writing in The L Magazine“‘Ladies and Gentlemen’ is clever in all the right ways, even while paying homage to the most traditional of forms.
Known for his ability to navigate difficult human relationships in Mr. His tales build suspense by immersing us in the lives of average people, then demonstrating how easily such lives can tip into tumult.” ~Steve Almond, writing in The Boston Globe“Ross is a master at delivering the unexpected, and every story in this collection will hit you with a surprise punch ending. Peanut.’ What makes them electrifying is the author’s knack for luring his characters into emotional danger. Peanut take hold early and don’t let go.” ~Margaret Quamme, writing in The Columbus Dispatch“These are traditional stories, written in precise and plainspoken prose, and devoid of the trickery that marred ‘Mr. Peanut).” ~Daniel Roberts, writing in The Rumpus“The seven substantial stories in the first collection by the author of Mr. It’s a voice that favors crisp banter, brutal honesty, and often, morbidity (see: Mr.
Once I do, it’s all downhill from there.” ~Adam Ross describing his next project, a novel called Playworld, in an interview with Dan Coxon of Culturemob“Does this constitute a coming attraction? Who knows? Not me. It’s the sunny period in the project’s life because I know the first and last line of the book and so I’m thrilled about it, obviously, it’s simply genius, because I haven’t actually written a word yet. Peanut,’ the seven stories that make up ‘Ladies and Gentlemen’ are both riveting and affecting—the work of an author who has the rare ability to mesmerize and move us.” ~Skip Horack, writing in the San Francisco Chronicle“ivid depictions of modern anxiety and a lament to humankind’s waning attachment to commitment, deftly told by one of the most accomplished new writers working in the United States today.” ~Yasmin Sulaiman, writing in The List“I’m researching a novel about a musical actor and his son that’s set in the early 1980s, New York City. Ross is no doubt one of the most brilliant writers of our time.” ~Julie Cantrell, writing in The Southern Literary Review“Released just one year following the publication of his buzz-generating debut novel ‘Mr. From serious (The Holocaust) to surreal (being pranked on public TV), Ross sheds light on human insecurities and leaves us seeking redemption. He dips our feet into uncomfortable waters and makes us face, with clarity, the horrific things we do to one another.
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