More Time: Contemporary Short Stories and Late Style

More Time is a study of the careers of four brilliant short story writers (Alice Munro, Andre Dubus, Joy Williams, and Lydia Davis), concentrating on their later styles as those emerged from earlier stories. The contrast between early and late, as well as among the four writers themselves, reveals how diverse the short story has become in recent years, defying any effort to identify a single trajectory or presumed constitution to it as a literary form.