SOURCE: "Bygone Haircuts and Other Stories," in The New York Times Book Review, April 3, 1988, p. 11.
In the following negative review of Mourner at the Door, Rubins maintains that Lish's short fiction is "so mannered, so derivatively styled, as to cancel out all intimacy and empathy. "
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