Lives of Rocks

by Rick Bass

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The first time I read this, the title story was not the one that grabbed me. Now, it’s the one I think of the most, the one that keeps drawing me back over and over.

Same for “Her First Elk.” I must be growing older. That is not a bad thing.

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April 2011:
Excluding Fitzgerald, as you do to make it a fair fight, my favorite short story for years has been “The Watch” in Rick Bass’s The Watch. I’ve been curious what would finally pose a threat on that score and now I know. I’ve read “Pagans” and “Goats.”

Five stars to something that’s not Faulkner on the heels of All The Pretty Horses? You’d think that’s overreaching or even impossible but not so much, not at all.