SOURCE: Birkerts, Sven. “Ethan Canin/Mona Simpson/Brett Easton Ellis/Jill Eisenstadt.” In American Energies, pp. 374-79. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1992.
In the following excerpt, Birkerts delineates the defining characteristics of the stories in Canin's short story collection Emperor of the Air.
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