...read in Greensboro a few weeks ago, and I was shocked to discover that I was the absolutely last person among my circle of fiction writers to discover his work. They'd all read him before me, passing his excellent second collection around, but somehow it never got to me.

They had their excuses -- PClem swears he loaned me the book -- but I know it was a conspiracy.

My second favorite story from Among the Missing is online: "Big Me", which is great in no small part because it uses the Gerry of the Past / Gerry of the Future construction I've been amusing/torturing myself with since elementary school. I can't find my favorite story from the book -- "Here Is a Little Something to Remember Me By" -- online, but you should buy the collection for this story alone. It's unbelievably good.

Or you could buy You Remind Me of Me, the very funny novel he read from, which comes out in paperback tomorrow.