Artforum, April 1st, 2006
Speaking about Amy Hempel's short stories, the novelist William Kennedy once lauded her ability to "leave out all the right things." In four collections published in the past twenty years, Hempel has revealed herself to be a woman of few words, with some tales comprising a single sentence, earning herthe label "miniaturist" from critic Robert Towers and "precisionist" from Raymond Carver. But being economical doesn't mean she is stingy: On the contrary, The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel, which Scribnerwill publish next month, testifies to her obsession with language. With lean, mordantly wit...
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