Review: 'The Youngest Boy,' by Jim Heynen
FICTION: Jim Heynen's collection of short-short stories offers flashes of the beauty and solitude of a rural childhood.
By Kathleen Rooney
Special to the Star Tribune
April 9, 2021 — 8:38am
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In a literary landscape that still privileges the rather grandiose notion of the Great American Novel, to describe a piece of writing as a sketch or a vignette or a slice of life can come across as damning with faint praise. But as fans of flash fiction — short-short stories usually defined as 1,000 or fewer words — have long appreciated, compression packs a pithy punch.