“Just to get it over with and done.” While that’s the fictional Tyrell Rawls speaking in “Cumberland Breakdown,” from Oates’ latest collection of stories, I Am No One You Know, he could be explaining how his creator has churned out no fewer than forty-three novels by the age of sixty-six. Without a doubt, there’s more than enough Oates to go around, but followers disappointed by the critical flop of Blonde and the mainstream success of We Were the Mulvaneys have long been wishing that she would return to the height of her powers in the short-story form. She has. Dust off a copy of Upon the Sweeping Flood before the reading. 10500 Hillside Ln., Minnetonka; (952) 847-8637; www.hclib.org
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