The characters in this imaginative and penetrating story collection—a man hounded by lightning strikes, a driver blown off the Mackinac bridge, a pianist whose fingers stop working, a woman who ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. In his new collection, “Two Nurses, Smoking,” David Means derives power from revealing the workings of his craft. By Jess Walter ...

David Means has won this year’s PEN/Bernard and Ann Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, which has recognized writers who have “demonstrated exceptional achievement in the short story form ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “In the Waiting Room,” by Elizabeth Bishop, and her own poem “Love Poem Like We Used to Write It.” The New Yorker Radio Hour Ian McEwan on Imagining the ...

David Means’ sixth volume of short fiction, “Two Nurses, Smoking,” is a book of grieving. Though there is much else afoot, there’s no other way to read the 10 stories gathered here. Tragedies take ...

David Means is the author of *A Quick Kiss of Redemption*, *Assorted Fire Events*, and *The Secret Goldfish*. His work has appeared in *The New Yorker*, *Harper’s Magazine*, *Zoetrope*, *Best American ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: David Means is an Author with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2001 Forum. Finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Book Awards for books ...