Binocular Vision New & Selected Stories Edith Pearlman Lookout Books: 374 pp., $18.95 paper ...

"Binocular Vision," the volume of new and selected Pearlman stories published by Lookout Books, graces readers with a near-dizzying range of people, eras, locales and situations -- a cornucopia so ...

That changed when her fourth book, “Binocular Vision,” was lauded last year on the cover of The New York Times Book Review.

Binocular Vision," then, is 34 stories. Many are revelations, as good as advertised. Most are miracles of compression, not at all difficult to read, but gravid with the scrupulously observed.

And thanks to the National Book Foundation, which recently chose her spectacular short story collection "Binocular Vision" as a finalist for this year's fiction award, she may yet find the ...