Justin Taylor is the author of the story collection Everything Here Is the Best Thing Ever and the novel The Gospel of Anarchy. His hardcover debut Flings: Stories (Harper) is a piercing collection of short fiction that illuminates our struggle to find love, comfort, and identity. From an East Village rooftop to a cabin in Tennessee, from the Florida suburbs to Hong Kong, Taylor covers a vast emotional and geographic landscape while ushering us into an abiding intimacy with his characters, Flings captures the contemporary search for identity, connection, and a place to call home. In their starred review, Publisher’s Weekly writes, “These stories, by turns witty and piercing, form an uncommon portrait of the human heart.”
