Waits Goes Live
January / February, 2010
"Fun With Problems," the opening story in this collection of the same name, follows a small-town lawyer as he seduces a brittle young psychologist. The chase is clinched when he gives her a sudden violent slap. The morning after, she starts to cry as he's leaving. "Walking out to tears," he thinks. "So dispiriting." There isn't much to make spirits soar in the stories that follow, either; after all, few writers have trolled the dark corners of humanity as effective...
