Clifford Garstang

Clifford Garstang

Clifford Garstang is the author of three novels, The Last Bird of Paradise, Oliver’s Travels, and The Shaman of Turtle Valley, a novel-in-stories, What the Zhang Boys Know, winner of the Library of Virginia Literary Award for Fiction, and two story collections, House of the Ancients and Other Stories and In an Uncharted Country. He is also the editor of Everywhere Stories: Short Fiction from a Small Planet, a series of anthologies of stories set around the world.


8 entries by Clifford Garstang

Book Review

Parade: A Novel

By Rachel Cusk

Parade: A Novel

A provocative, not wholly satisfying meditation on art.

Book Review

Growing Things and Other Stories

Ambiguity and terror reign in this creepy, satisfying collection.

Book Review

Happy Dreams

By Jia Pingwa; translated by Nicky Harman

Happy Dreams

A naive idealist hopes to make it in big-city China.

Book Review

Village

By Stanley Crawford

Village

This story of a community’s resistance to the government is both charming and timely, if somewhat bloated with characters.

Book Review

Eveningland

By Michael Knight

Eveningland

A deeply satisfying collection of tales chronicling the demise of the Old South.

Book Review

Happy Dreams: A Novel

By Jia Pingwa; translated by Nicky Harman

Happy Dreams: A Novel

A naive idealist hopes to make it in big-city China.

Book Review

Village: A Novel

By Stanley Crawford

Village: A Novel

This story of a community’s resistance to the government is both charming and timely, if somewhat bloated with characters.

Book Review

Eveningland: Stories

By Michael Knight

Eveningland: Stories

A deeply satisfying collection of tales chronicling the demise of the Old South.