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Lorrie Moore is a writer I come back to again and again. She just wrote a great tribute to John Updike on his passing, and if you like Updike, but wish he had added a little stand-up comedy to his work, you will love Lorrie Moore. I think it is the gallows humor that I find so appealling. Her stories can be appallingly sad, yet her characters do their best to entertain: they dance, the play charades, they make really bad puns. The pain and humor exist together, sometimes in the same paragraph, and her characters are very real. Oh, read this and everything else she's written too. If only she would write faster, for we need more. More, more, more.
