The Consummation of Dirk

Winner of the eighth Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction Callahan's collection represents an exceptional level of accomplishment for a debut author, mixing styles, humor, and various international identities and locales, as well as highly wrought representations of misery. Callahan has said that the initial working title for the collection was "The Book of Pain," a title that fails to account for the imagination and wit that also pervades the book. Callahan's stories...
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Winner of the eighth Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction
Callahan's collection represents an exceptional level of accomplishment for a debut author, mixing styles, humor, and various international identities and locales, as well as highly wrought representations of misery. Callahan has said that the initial working title for the collection was "The Book of Pain," a title that fails to account for the imagination and wit that also pervades the book.
Callahan's stories from the collection have appeared or are forthcoming in "The Collagist," "Kill Author," "The Lifted Brow," "Pank," "Underwater New York," "Unsaid," and "Washington Square Review." The title piece in the book, a mini-novella featuring Dallas Maverick Dirk Nowitzki that first appeared in "The Collagist," achieved brief blogosphere notoriety last autumn, written up at both Deadspin and ESPN.com.