Banjo Grease
Intriguing, Interlocking Stories
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Dennis Must is the author of three novels: Brother Carnival (Red Hen Press 2018), Hush Now, Don't Explain (Coffeetown Press 2014), and The World's Smallest Bible (Red Hen Press 2014); as well as three short story collections: Going Dark (Coffeetown Press 2016), Oh, Don't Ask Why (Red Hen Press 2007), and Banjo Grease (Creative Arts Book Company 2000 and Red Hen Press 2019). He won the 2014 Dactyl Foundation Literary Fiction Award for Hush Now, Don't Explain; in addition, a was a finalist in the 2019 Next Generation Indie Book Awards for Banjo Grease, the 2016 International Book Awards for Going Dark, and the 2014 USA Best Book Award in Literary Fiction for The World's Smallest Bible. A member of the Authors Guild, his plays have been produced off-off-Broadway. He resides with his wife in Salem, Massachusetts.
These stories float through the reader like frozen images. Each one fits into the others unevenly as jagged glass. This is the essence of great fiction at the end of the century; Ray Carver and Thom Jones plowed into some stupendous force that whips along with a tilted wild energy.
-- Kate Gale, author of Goldilocks Zone
Dennis Must's first collection of short stories is no ordinary debut but the mature work of a fully accomplished literary artist. Moreover, his originality, his deep irreverence, and his compassion for working-class men and women . . . Strivers and seekers of dreams, signal him as an inspired author in a new American grain--a visionary, poet, and realist . . .
-- Tom Jenks, editor (with Raymond Carver) of American Short Story Masterpieces
Dennis Must's stunning collection Banjo Grease is just what one hopes for: a series of intriguing, interlocking stories whose cumulative force goes beyond the sum of its parts.
-- Geoffrey Clark, author of Jackdog Summer, What the Moon Said, and Rabbit Fever
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