Day’s characters can be hoarders, filthy, larcenous and adulterous. But there always emerges a moral point, a discovery or self-discovery, a quick drawing of the breath at what has been revealed or irretrievably lost. Just as Paul in the story “Billion Dollar Dream” digs an elevator shaft and the narrator of “By the Light of the Silvery Moon” digs graves, author Day goes deep for the dirt and watches the sunrise from the hole.
Robert Day’s short fiction has received Best American Short Stories and Pushcart Prize citations. Among his awards and fellowships are the National Endowment to the Arts, both Yaddo and McDowell Fellowships, and a Maryland Arts Council Award. His fiction has appeared in such places as TriQuarterly, North Dakota Quarterly, and New Letters, and his nonfiction has appeared in the American Scholar, Washington Post Magazine, Smithsonian, and elsewhere.
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