Intriguing, Interlocking Stories
These stories float through the reader like frozen images. Each one fits into the others unevenly as jagged glass. This is the essence of great fiction at the end of the century; Ray Carver and Thom Jones plowed into some stupendous force that whips along with a tilted wild energy.
— Kate Gale, author of Goldilocks Zone
Dennis Must's first collection of short stories is no ordinary debut but the mature work of a fully accomplished literary artist. Moreover, his originality, his deep irreverence, and his compassion for working-class men and women . . . Strivers and seekers of dreams, signal him as an inspired author in a new American grain-a visionary, poet, and realist . . .
— Tom Jenks, editor (with Raymond Carver) of American Short Story Masterpieces
Dennis Must's stunning collection Banjo Grease is just what one hopes for: a series of intriguing, interlocking stories whose cumulative force goes beyond the sum of its parts.
— Geoffrey Clark, author of Jackdog Summer, What the Moon Said, and Rabbit Fever
