Changing the Subject

Stephen-Paul Martin has been called &quote;one of our great deadpan humorists,&quote; by Eric Basso and &quote;North America's foremost master of the short story&quote; by Vernon Frazer. Marjorie Perloff has described his writing as &quote;wildly comic,&quote; and Fanny Howe has called his stories &quote;magnificent and entertaining.&quote; In CHANGING THE SUBJECT Martin once again deforms traditional notions of the story, giving us beautifully digressive revenge-fantasies, hysterical moral tales, and his singular, uncanny brand of the shaggy dog yarn