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THE FEAR OF EVERYTHING: STORIES
"In these nine new short stories, John McNally's work takes a fantastical turn, where magicians show up unexpectedly at schools, retirees answer phone calls from lonely children, and sleep study assistants speak to patients about their afterlife experiences. As with McNally's two previous collections, the award-winning Troublemakers and best-selling Ghosts of Chicago, the stories in The Fear of Everything balance humor with poignancy, but McNally stakes out new territories of darkness and absurdity. These stories are of men, women, and children, often lonely, reaching out for a connection, whether it's to prospective lovers using online dating sites or to one's younger self via bygone technology. Richard Russo wrote of Troublemakers, "John McNally is an electrifying writer whose stories burrow under the skin. His world becomes our world, his way of seeing, ours. Resistance is futile." Twenty years later, the same is true for The Fear of Everything."

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John McNally is author or editor of eighteen books, including three novels: After the Workshop, The Book of Ralph and America's Report Card; two story collections, Troublemakers (winner of the John Simmons Short Fiction Award and the Nebraska Book Award) and Ghosts of Chicago (a Chicagoland Indie Bestseller and voted one of the top twenty fiction books of 2008 by readers of The Believer); and two nonfiction books: The Creative Writer's Survival Guide: Advice from an Unrepentant Novelist and Vivid and Continuous: Essays on the Craft of Fiction, both published the University of Iowa Press. John's work has appeared in over a hundred publications, including The Washington Post, The Sun, San Francisco Chronicle, and Virginia Quarterly Review. His fiction and nonfiction have been anthologized in Long Story Short (University of North Carolina Press), New Sudden Fiction (Norton), Don't You Forget about Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes (Simon Spotlight), Winding Roads: Essays in Writing Creative Nonfiction (Longman), and Behind the Short Story: From First to Final Draft (Longman), among others. He has a screenplay for a feature length movie in development with the producer Winter's Bone. He has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award and the recipient of fellowships from Paramount Pictures (Chesterfield Writer's Film Project), the University of Iowa (James Michener Award), George Washington University (Jenny McKean Moore Fellowship), and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (Carl Djerassi Fiction Fellowship). John began teaching fiction writing in 1989.

REVIEWS
"John McNally s excellent short story collection The Fear of Everything includes nine tales of subtle terror. Beginning with The Magician, this book marks its territory: it specializes in a kind of removed, intellectual suburban unease. These stories are not inhabited by traditional supernatural monsters, but rather by the specters of regret for decisions made or not made, and by the repercussions of unrealized opportunities and events long past." ~ Peter Dabbene
"Like the magician in the first story of The Fear of Everything, John McNally is a master of sleight of hand, leading you, you think, one way, only to take you to someplace entirely different, entirely darker. And like the very best story writers, he can make you laugh all the way to the heartbreak, the shiver of realization when you finally see that things may not be quite as they seemed. Ranging from middle school classrooms to calls late in the night, from eerie disappearances to the people only longing for some kind of connection in the masterpiece title story, all these stories find John at the very top of his game." ~ Pete Fromm, author of Indian Creek Chronicles
"The Fear of Everything is everything a short story collection should be. By turns hilarious, horrifying, and heartbreaking and sometimes all three at once these stories illuminate the glorious strangeness of the everyday world, in which the bright afternoons of childhood turn dark as quickly as a Midwestern sky fills with storm clouds, and ordinary people turn out sometimes to be monsters and sometimes to be capable of a kindness that surprises even themselves. With razor-sharp humor, big-hearted generosity, and a dash of the absurd, John McNally unearths an America of loneliness and longing, of vanished children and missing cats and men lost in grief, some of whom, now and then, are lucky enough to be found. An absolute delight." ~ Matthew Griffin, author of Hide