Rumors from the Lost World (978-0898231427)
Rumors from the Lost World is the first of three prize-winning collections of short fiction from the co-editor of Visiting Bob: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Bob Dylan (2018), the founding co-editor of American Fiction: The Best Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Writers and the author of the newly-published and widely praised Clouds Are the Mountains of the World, a novel-in-stories set in a dystopian near-future. Some of these stories first appeared in Crescent Review, Denver Quarterly, Fiction Review, The Greensboro Review, Kansas Quarterly, North Dakota Quarterly, Northland Review, Pulpsmith, Roberts Writing Awards, and Beyond Borders: An Anthology of New Writing from Manitoba, Minnesota, Saskatchewan, and the Dakotas.
"A magical collection of stories, one of the best I've encountered in years." - Tim O'Brien
"Moving easily between blue-collar types and Social Register summer people, New Age dancers and Old World immigrants, underground poets and Elvis freaks, Davis demonstrates an impressive range in this collection." -Kirkus Review
“Davis’s voice transports and sings. I kept thinking that I wouldn’t mind winding up as a character in one of his stories. Odds are, he’d do me justice.” -Dorothy Allison, NY Times Book Review
"There is magic in a world that still somehow seems devoid of magic." -Publishers Weekly
"He has an original talent, a feel for action, a sparse yet vivid style, a sharp satirical sense, a keen eye and ear for the follies of the age." Walker Percy