Download or read book The News of the World: Stories written by Ron Carlson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1987-01-17 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These stories come at us from every direction. They are Ron Carlson's response to the eighties, the stories we will want by our sides as the decade ends. Whether it is a husband trying to bring his marriage back together or Bigfoot finally coming forward, Carlson's characters speak with radical honesty that is disarming. They are the men and women all around us who open the refrigerator at two in the morning and see the faces of missing children on the milk carton. The world is a large dose sometimes, and they wonder whether they can measure up to its danger and its magic.