Fire Ants: And Other Stories

Publishers Weekly hailed the "wit and subtlety" in Gerald Duff's fiction as "simply satisfying as a tall cold one on a hot Gulf Coast afternoon." The Arkansas Democrat- Gazette said "Gerald Duff's dialogue is among the best being written, and his sense of the absurd is Portis-like." This new collection of short stories features "Fire Ants, " which won the Cohen Award from Ploughshares for the best work of fiction published in the magazine in the year of its appearance. In addition to winning the Cohen Award, the title story was cited in Best American Short Stories and republished in The Editors' Choice: New American Stories.