What makes a great short story collection? In Debutiful’s latest Q&A series, Inside the Collection, short story writers will take readers through their writing, editing, and sequencing of their debut short story collection.
In Objects of Desire, Adam O’Fallon Price delivers an unflinchingly honest and darkly funny collection exploring the restless longings, complicated relationships, and unfulfilled desires that shape our lives. From a resentful brother confronting the responsibility of donating bone marrow to his dying sibling to a struggling artist whose search for his missing dog leads him into danger and a college soccer player wrestling with childhood trauma and resentment toward her mother, these stories follow characters whose desires push them toward unexpected and often irreversible consequences. Winner of the Autumn House Press Fiction Prize, selected by Alexandra Kleeman, Objects of Desire examines the distance between what we want and what we need, and the ways our own impulses can lead us astray. Price is also the author of two novels, The Grand Tour and The Hotel Neversink, the latter of which won the 2020 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original. His fiction has appeared in Harper’s, The Paris Review, Granta, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Carrboro, North Carolina, and teaches fiction writing at the University of North Carolina.
In our latest Inside the Collection Q&A, Price takes readers inside his debut short story collection, Objects of Desire.
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