Almonds to Zhoof: Collected Stories by Richard G. Stern, a review from The New Republic Online by Boris Fishman.
"Richard Stern is the best American fiction writer of whom you have never heard. After more than five decades of dogged obscurity ? despite nine novels, five story collections, a half-dozen non-fictional 'miscellanies,' and a memoir ? he has become 'famous for not being famous,' in a reviewer's apt phrase, a 'has-been without ever having been a been,' in Stern's own. He has been gracious about oblivion the way other writers are gracious about fame. " Read the entire New Republic review.