Public Works - Reviews

"A brilliant pastiche, a generous feast of imagination and language, a wild, word-drenched ride, Public Works heralds a fabulous new voice in fiction. Christopher Grimes is a wonder."

—Rilla Askew
author of The Mercy Seat

"The stories in Public Works have as much honesty and pathos as they do wry perceptions about themselves and the nature of fiction. In their droll and fascinating self-consciousness, not only do these pieces inspect the intimate mechanisms of creating fiction, but also the bizarre (real) world literature inhabits, from lit mag offices and soirees, to readers' unconscious expectations and needs."

—Cris Mazza