SOURCE: Eder, Richard. “Short Stories That Ignite When Struck.” Los Angeles Times (17 February 1988): 1.

In the following review, Eder provides a favorable assessment of the stories comprising Dusk and Other Stories.

To say that James Salter's short stories are terse, expertly written and able to command a range of moods with the most economical of gestures is to tell the truth and deceive.

Because the next adjective ought to be cool, and you would have one more specimen of the accomplished and distanced mode that has marked the strongest American short story fiction until recently, though I think it is being overtaken.

But that has nothing to do with Salter. The missing word is not cool but resplendent. That is not a Salterian adjective, not because it is a hot word but because it is rather general. Salter, in his carefully laid gunpowder train, drops a white hot phrase...