Greg Jackson (1)

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 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.… (meer)