I Don’t Want to Know Anyone Too Well: Collected Stories

Levine is a true artist, who grinds his bones-and anything else he can get his hands on-to make his bread. -The Sunday Times

Reminiscent of Bernard Malamud and Cynthia Ozick, Norman Levine’s short fiction was largely ignored in his lifetime. Yet they remain some of the most skillfully-crafted and moving works of the last half of the twentieth century. Taken together, these stories make a convincing argument for Levine’s mastery, and as a writer in need of urgent rediscovery.