For All the Obvious Reasons (ePub)

LYNN STEGNER is the author of three novels, a collection of novellas, and various stories and essays. Her work has received numerous awards including the Faulkner Award for Best Novel (for Because a Fire Was in My Head)-also a New York Times Editor's Choice, a Book Sense Pick, and a Literary Ventures Selection. Over the years, fellowships from the NEA, the Fulbright Society, the Western States Arts Council have recognized the literary distinction of her work. Currently teaching novel and fiction writing at Stanford University, she divides her time between San Francisco and Vermont's Northeast Kingdom.

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"The luminosity of Stegner's images and certain crystalline moments in these stories might remind a reader of the most powerful of James Salter's work. The blade-like deftness of the characters' interior pronouncements and realization—often coming with surprising and breathless misdirection--might remind readers as well of the work of Alice Munro: though the more I read of Stegner, the more I come to recognize not just her voice, tone, and style, but her own underlying spirit. There exists in her characters a veil between intent and action—the taut confusion of yearning." —Rick Bass, author of For a Little While

"In For All the Obvious Reasons, Lynn Stegner has assembled a fearless, formidable collection of stories. An astonishingly wise writer, she delivers tough, worldly characters to the brink of disaster and asks them what it is they wish to live for. They answer her, and us, with their bodies and their souls. This is fiction to learn from, and live by." —Alyson Hagy, author of Boleto and Ghosts of Wyoming

"For All the Obvious Reasons is the most rewarding story-collection I’ve read in years. Lynn Stegner’s prose is consummately rich in detail and deeply intelligent about the human sensibility; her characters are vivid and compelling; and her stories take turns and make revelations that will make you catch your breath." —David Huddle, author of Nothing Can Make Me Do This

"Like only the best storytellers, Stegner is a shapeshifter. She is so masterful with language and thought, one emerges from her stories as though from a thoroughly remembered dream." —Rebecca Rotert, author of Last Night at the Blue Angel

“A gifted writer . . . Elegant ideas . . . Beautiful writing.” —The New York Times Book Review on Pipers at the Gates of Dawn

“Stunning . . . The poetic detail of Stegner’s sentences—not to