The Winnebago Mysteries and Other Stories - Reviews

"Moira Crone's fiction is full of lovely surprises. Her Winnebago Mysteries is a pure delight."

-John Barth

"Moira Crone's collection is about love. She expresses strength of feeling for both the form she has chosen, and for the people whose lives she celebrates, commemorates. Although this is not a trendily anti-male book, it is surely about women, and it is strong and interesting in that regard. The prose is powerful because restrained, poetic while serving Crone's affection for narrative. The book abounds not only in awfully good stories, but in wonderful sentences, lines I want to remember. A novella, The Winnebago Mysteries, is a fine extended piece, with terrific humor - dark and bright, sad and funny, at once. This book introduces an important young writer; paying attention to her is, at the very least, a great pleasure."

-Fredrick Busch

"Here are the necessary exorcisms of a young writer, performed with a swift surgical precision that allows for a glimpse of the depths right through the cuts. Unsentimental, hard hitting and charged, this is language at work."

-Andrea Codrescu