Excitability: Selected Stories, 1986-1996 Romanian Literature Series and the people he meets

and the people he meets become increasingly vivid and complex figures in the crowded Bucharest cityscape

Otsuki must mimic an Orphic descent into a contemporary Underworld — a place where natural order is upturned and the stoicism

Walking and writing

The narrator writes letters to these men and women in the hope that he can console them in their various miseries

and even turn into one another

Excitability: Selected Stories, 1986-1996 Romanian Literature Series and the people he meetsExcitability collects the best of Diane Williams's bold, often hilarious, stories of love, sex, child rearing, death, and space aliensstories that are (in the words of Bradford Morrow) "wry, sensuous, spiritual, wise, raunchy, familial Excitability collects the best of Diane Williams's bold, often hilarious, stories of love, sex, child rearing, death, and space aliensstories that are (in the words of Bradford Morrow) "wry, sensuous, spiritual, wise,