About the Author

Ron Currie Jr. is a native of Waterville, Maine, and whose fiction has appeared in "Glimmer Train," "The Sun," "Other Voices" and "Night Train." His stories have won prizes in The World's Best Short Story competition and have been shortlisted for the Fish International Short Story award and "Swink" magazine's Emerging Writer Award. "God is Dead" is his first novel.

Reviews

" Like Kurt Vonnegut, Currie understands that . . . humor is a more powerful salt than screed."
-"San Francisco Chronicle"

"Mr. Currie is a startlingly talented writer whose book will pay no heed to ordinary narrative conventions.... He survives the inevitable, apt comparisons to Kurt Vonnegut and writes in a tenderly mordant voice of his own.... Throughout the story there is the sheer delight of Mr. Currie's fresh, joltingly funny imagery.... Above all "Everything Matters!" radiates writerly confidence. The excitement that drives the reader from page to page is not about the characters. It's about seeing what Mr. Currie will try next."
--Janet Maslin, "New York Times"




a Like Kurt Vonnegut, Currie understands that . . . humor is a more powerful salt than screed.a
a"San Francisco Chronicle"

" Like Kurt Vonnegut, Currie understands that . . . humor is a more powerful salt than screed."
-"San Francisco Chronicle"

"Mr. Currie is a startlingly talented writer whose book will pay no heed to ordinary narrative conventions.... He survives the inevitable, apt comparisons to Kurt Vonnegut and writes in a tenderly mordant voice of his own.... Throughout the story there is the sheer delight of Mr. Currie's fresh, joltingly funny imagery.... Above all "Everything Matters!" radiates writerly confidence. The excitement that drives the reader from page to page is not about the characters. It's about seeing what Mr. Currie will try next."
--Janet Maslin, "New York Times"




a Like Kurt Vonnegut, Currie understands that . . . humor is a more powerful salt than screed.a
a"San Francisco Chronicle"