"Meticulously crafted. This first-rate collection demonstrates why Schwartz remains an American literary treasure." -- Publishers Weekly "A grab bag of realist and experimental stories, each one a treasure . Wise, wry, and witty--theses stories in all their stylistic variations are perfect." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review "This excellent writer has the great gift of making even the slightest of domestic situations feel richly alive to the pleasures we allow and the punishments we inflict on ourselves and one another. It is a joy to read this latest collection of her short fictions." -- Vivian Gornick, author of Fierce Attachments: A Memoir "These wonderful stories about our need for connection and our sense of alienation are timely and timeless at once. Lynne Sharon Schwartz is a dazzling writer.

" -- Hilma Wolitzer, author of Hearts "This elegant new collection includes some of Schwartz's most surprising and satisfying short works, demonstrating anew her sustained powers as a writer, through an astonishing 28 books and 40 years." -- Alix Kates Shulman, author of Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen "[Schwartz's] insights are at once sympathetic and drenched with irony." -- The New York Times on Rough Strife "Disturbances in the Field seems a more-than-welcome return to a classic idea of the novel. A wonder to read. I can think of no other contemporary writer who writes so well, with such rich sensuality." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review "Wonderful. It goes beyond literature and philosophy to a tough, battered truth." -- The New York Times on Disturbances in the Field "A quiet masterwork of late 20th-century American realism.

" -- Kirkus Reviews on Disturbances in the Field "The book has the architecture of a sonata." -- San Jose Mercury News on Disturbances in the Field "[R]eading Schwartz is like a pleasurable visit with a thoughtful and articulate friend." -- Kirkus Reviews on This is Where We Come In "Lynne Sharon Schwartz reaches into her heart, examines its intricacies, tinkers with little broken bits, and shows us what she's learned--daring us to try this risky procedure at home." -- Los Angeles Review of Books on This is Where We Come In "Schwartz is a connoisseur of anguish, especially survivor's guilt, yet she is also an adept choreographer of romance. Incisive, unafraid to flirt with melodrama in pursuit of a compelling story, acutely descriptive yet to the point, she now brings to fiction the era-defining tragedy of September 11, 2001. [T]his is also a richly nuanced love story, a tale of earned trust and courageous receptivity in a time of fanaticism and war." -- Booklist Starred Review on The Writing on the Wall.