Fiction. In David Evanier's new collection of stories, THE GREAT KISSER "There is a bloodshot intensity..., a drive to get hold of the world before it all gets lost, the streets, the rooms, the feeling of the times—the 60s and 70s—when personal and public life felt so terribly urgent. Evanier writes a muscular, watchful prose, and again and again he pulls it off, surprising his characters in t heir existential habitat—unsettled, confused, completely caught up in the act of becoming"—Sven Birkerts.