Recent Reading: The Complete Stories of Bernard Malamud

Cynthia Ozick said of Malamud:

Is he an American master? Of course. He not only wrote in the American language, he augmented it with fresh plasticity, he shaped our English into startling ne configurations ... He wrote about suffering Jews, about grocers and fixers and birds and horses and angels in Harlem and matchmakers and salesmen and rabbis and landlords and tenants and landlords and egg candlers and writers and chimpanzees; he wrote about the plenitude and unity of the world.