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The Brand New York Times Book Review has recognized Rich Burgin’s tales as "strangely humorous, dexterous, also haunting to be quickly overlooked," as the Philadelphia Inquirer calls him "one of America’s many unique storytellers, no one of his era reviews the modern battle between your genders with increased destructive humor and precision." Today, in Darkness Visitors, his seventh collection of tales, five-time Pushcart Prize-Winner Richard Burgin provides us his most incisive, humorous, and bold collection to-date as he considers the mysteries of love and personality, goal and offense, and our ceaseless, if ambivalent, pursuit of reality. In "Memorial Day," an aging person in a public pool evokes a short but important event he'd with a British girl in Birmingham thirty years back and the role his recently departed father performed inside it. Within the extremely suspenseful "Oblivion and Memo," occur the long run in Ny, two competing drug companies participate in a dangerous fight for supremacy—one marketing a pill that boosts memory tremendously, another a pill that significantly removes memory. "The Interview" centers around ab-film celebrity committed to a much older and more well-known representative and her heartbreaking nonetheless witty interview by having an ambitious but conflicted young writer.