"Gwen Goodkin's debut short story collection follows in the tradition of other meteoric writers like Jayne Anne Phillips, Mary Gaitskill, Lauren Groff, and so many before them, heralding a new, sui generis voice that promises so much to come."
Rex Pickett, author of Sideways and The Archivist

"Some of the stories in A Place Remote resemble the strong and deep feeling of Sherwood Anderson's collection Winesburg, Ohio that put the American heartland under a microscope in the early years of the last century. Other stories speak to the zany, contemporary world of the twenty-first century, in that same place. What makes Gwen Goodkin's stories so important is that with wit and compassion they touch on the desire to return to the strong loyalty and its values that this America tugs us back to."
Mark Jay Mirsky, editor of Fiction and professor of English, City College of New York