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Greg Jackson (1)

Author of Prodigals: Stories

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Works by Greg Jackson

Prodigals: Stories (2016) 65 copies, 1 review

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The Best American Short Stories 2022 (2022) — Contributor — 143 copies, 6 reviews
Granta 139: Best of Young American Novelists (2017) — Contributor — 77 copies, 2 reviews
The Best American Essays 2025 (2025) — Contributor — 31 copies, 1 review

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Short stories are hard, and we all know that. This is Greg Jackson's first published collection and it's easy to tell. About half of the stories were very interesting; the other half I found uninteresting because it seemed as if the writer may have just been hiding biographical details about his life within various stories - they seemed too specific-yet-general young man angsty yet clearly personal to Jackson to have been creatively thought up. As I said before, about half of the stories show more were genuinely interesting, but as with many short stories, the pitfall is that it doesn't go anywhere or rise above an elementary slice-of-life level. show less

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