T.C. Boyle's "Stories"

The T. C(oraghessan) Boyle story I just referenced is "The Descent of Man" and you can find it, and sixty-some lovely peers, in this volume of Boyle's short fiction. This is an indispensable delight which has entertained me for almost a year of sporadic picking. You can guess why I like him: Boyle writes like an omnivorous satirist, and he likes a light story with some wordplay (he's almost too generous with his verbiage) and a what-if spirit that might have been appropriated from the long running Marvel magazine comic.

While his stories are widely anthologized, I've never actually read any of his novels, a slight which I intend to remedy inmediately with his latest, "The Women": which, if you can look past its pedestrian title, it's purportedly about the lovers who influenced Frank Lloyd Wright.