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Review title: More of the Same
Product review: This is the sort of negligible and pedestrian collection that gets published as the result of the writer's entering a competition and having his or her submission adjudged to be better than the other contest entries. In most cases, the winning entry gives the reader a sense of how god-awful the other entries must have been. The Drew Heinz Prize has a long history of duds and dogs, and this collection is another. It's not that it's outright terrible; it's just that it's a collection of formulaic workshop-style exercises. The prose is uniformly drab. The plots are mechanical. The characters are pale echoes of people you've read about, too often, elsewhere. Prizes like the Drew Heinz are ensuring the increasing marginalization of serious literary writing.
