The Winds of Marble Arch, by Connie Willis

“The Winds of Marble Arch” — a massive collection of (Connie) Willis’ stories and novellas from the past 20 years or so — is, it must be said, a motley assortment. Some of the pieces (”Daisy, in the Sun,” “All My Darling Daughters”) are fierce, breathtakingly well-crafted satires on a par with George Saunders; others are screwball comedies or flirtations with sentimentality that manage, by some nimble miracle, to avoid turning treacly (”Newsletter,” “Epiphany”). Still others don’t really seem worth reprinting at all.” Read the review at Salon.com.