She Loves Me Not: New and Selected Stories

Ron Hansen has long been celebrated as a master of both the novel and the short form. His stories have been called “extraordinary” ( ) and “wise and smart” ( ). In , the subjects of Hansen’s scrutiny range from Oscar Wilde to murder to dementia to romance, and display Hansen at his storytelling best: These are “unforgettable stories, each utterly different from the one before….This is writing that slows the breathing” ( ). Readers will thrill to Hansen’s masterful attention to the smallest and most telling details, even as he plunges straight into the deepest recesses of desire, love, fury, and loss. Magisterial in its scope and surprising in its variety, shows an author at the height of his powers and confirms Hansen’s place as a major American writer. This breathtaking collection “should put him on the short-story map” ( contains an excerpt from Hansen’s new novel, , to be published in fall, 2016.