Publisher’s Weekly hailed the “wit and subtlety” in Gerald Duff’s fiction as “simply satisfying as a tall cold one on a hot Gulf Coast afternoon,” and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazetter said “Gerald Duff’s dialogue is among the best being written, and his sense of the absurd is Portis-like.” This new collection of short stories by the author of Coasters (2001) features the Ploughshares Cohen Prize-winning story “Fire Ants.”

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- Gerald Duff published in Clapboard House, recalls past meeting with Eudora Welty (June 11, 2010)
- Gerald Duff discusses Fire Ants and fiction at South Carolina Book Festival (March 11, 2010)
- Fire Ants, Others Praised on LibraryThing Website (June 24, 2009)
- Gerald Duff's No Man's Land Finalist for Michigan Literary Fiction Award (December 15, 2008)
- Gerald Duff Interviewed; Fire Ants Reviewed by Ploughshares (October 6, 2008)
- Flash Fiction by Gerald Duff in Clapboard House Magazine (August 5, 2008)
- Southern Living Says Texans are Reading Fire Ants (July 29, 2008)
- Gerald Duff Reflects on Virginia Festival of the Book (April 14, 2008)
- Fire Ants Finalist for Jesse Jones Award (April 1, 2008)
- Author Gerald Duff Sends Notes from On the Brink Conference (March 11, 2008)
- BookPage Calls Duff's Fire Ants a "Stimulating Collection" (January 17, 2008)
- NewSouth Announces Extended Search with Google Books (October 17, 2007)
- Gerald Duff Shares Responses to His Upcoming Book of Short Stories (September 26, 2007)
- Gerald Duff Story Now Available from Kenyon Review (June 11, 2007)
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- Coasters Author Gerald Duff Offers New Fiction, Novel (August 28, 2006)