A review by erikbergstrom
The Collected Stories by Amy Hempel

3.0

Amy Hempel's Collected Stories represent a list of stories I wish I could've written back in my college creative writing days. Now? Nah. It's like she never really left her MFA behind with some of these. Who reads these kinds of stories now other than MFA students? What are they really trying to say? They just seem like creative writing experiments. Streams of consciousness she went back to edit 100 times and try to make as deliberately obfuscated as possible. With that said... I am in awe! Nobody obfuscates more or better than the master, Amy Hempel.