What Did You Do Today?: Volume 22

"The stories in this book are like hard little perfect gems. Except when they're like nice firm chewy gummy candies with something extra inside. Or maybe like zingy, spritzery shots of something to drink. Or brain zaps. Or like when your doctor taps your knee just right and you don't know how they did it. Which I guess means just that this excitingly original work rewards a reader intellectually and emotionally and stylistically, and with humor and pity and sadness all at once. It's a book I will recommend to my smart reader friends."--Rebecca Brown, judge and author of The Gifts of the Body and You Tell the Stories You Need to Believe

"In the hands of Anthony Varallo, What Did You Do Today? turns out to be the most profound question in the language. Because Varallo shows us that whatever you did, it was singular and strange and noteworthy. I'm crazy about these surprising stories."--Elizabeth McKenzie, author of The Dog of the North

"There are few authors working in the flash form today who write with as much grace and mastery as Tony Varallo. Filled with humor and warmth, these beautiful and elegantly crafted stories give us powerful glimpses into the complex inner worlds of parents and children struggling with the challenges of growing up and growing old, of being both a caretaker and the one in need of care. These are generous, big-hearted, gorgeously written stories. An important and timeless collection."--Andrew Porter, author of The Disappeared

"A master of the miniature, Varallo brilliantly reminds us that the speck is the universe, the miniscule is momentous. What Did You Do Today? left me terrified and joyful and so strangely in love with being alive. When we have all disappeared from this earth, may these stories remain as evidence that to be seriously lost means we've been finally found."--Sabrina Orah Mark, author of Wild Milk