Her entry begins:I read novels week after week until I’m stuffed and almost queasy, so full of motivations and twists and fat paragraphs of prose, that I think if I see one more prologue I’m going to barf. Then I relieve the distress with a very select work of non-fiction or a collection of essays or short stories. Something to cleanse my palate after gorging myself on all that conflict and redemption. (Redemption alone can bloat you for days.)Among the early praise for The Bird House:
Last week I found myself in such a coma after reading another big juicy tale, that I knew it was time to crack open a book of short stories: Ann Beattie’s The New Yorker Stories.
Ann Beattie is...[read on]
"Such crisp, tight prose I was hooked from the very first page."Visit Kelly Simmons' website and blog.
--Chevy Stevens, NY Times bestselling author of Still Missing
"Smoothly shifts between past and present. Complex and poignant."
--Publishers Weekly
"A school project unlocks a Pandora's box of unsettling truths. Evocative and detailed."
--Kirkus Reviews
"A great title for book groups ... and fans of Lisa Genova's Still Alice."
--Library Journal
"A smart, simmering page turner."
--New York Journal of Books
The Page 69 Test: Standing Still.
My Book, The Movie: Standing Still.
Writers Read: Kelly Simmons.
--Marshal Zeringue
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