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Four Letter Word: Invented Correspondence From the Edge of Modern Romance
Edited by Joshua Knelman and Rosalind Porter
Free Press, 259 pages, $18
There are a few prominent, older writers in this collection of 41 stories — Margaret Atwood, for instance — but the astonishment in this collection lies with the sensibility of authors like Neil Gaiman, David Bezmozgis and Lionel Shriver, whose stories, all written in a high state of emotion, are dark, funny, ironic, sarcastic — and a sharp rejoinder to the text message or greeting card.
