Lou Gaglia: 2 books

In Sure Things & Last Chances, Lou Gaglia’s characters tip love rivals into lakes, try private eye work, and go to war with ants. They are dangled over decks and kicked by horses. They revisit their younger selves and contemplate love and death and beauty. In between, a straw man joins the fire...

Poor Advice, winner of the 2015 New Apple Literary Award for short story fiction and the 2016 New York Book Festival Award for fiction, reveals Lou Gaglia’s humor, imagination, and range. An awful poet, dumped by his girlfriend, roams through Italy, where he clearly doesn’t belong. An oil delivery...