Rivers Last Longer

"The motley psyches in Mr. Burgin's gallery expose themselves in eerily funny monologues...But it is not their strangeness alone that fascinates...Rather, it is the way they twist messages from a saner world to fit their peculiar neuroses. And that is why Mr. Burgin's stories are so dexterous. In them, he has paused near a border, shifting his weight nervously, sizing up the wild, surrealistic landscape that lies just a few paces ahead."---The New York Times Book Review

"Without showiness or fuss, Burgin writes gorgeous evocative prose... A writer at once elegant and disturbing, Burgin is among our finest artists of love at its most desperate."---The Chicago Tribune

"One of America's most distinctive storytellers... I can think of no one of his generation who reports the contemporary war between the sexes with more devastating wit and accuracy."---The Philadelphia Inquirer

Richard Burgin's tales capture the strangeness of a world that is simultaneously frightening and reassuring, and in the contemporary American short story nothing quite resembles his singular voice."---The Boston Globe