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Critic Alan Cheuse reviews Twilight of the Superheroes by Deborah Eisenberg, a collection of stories that offers new ways of seeing and feeling.

MICHELE NORRIS, Host:

From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Michele Norris.

ROBERT SIEGEL, Host:

And I'm Robert Siegel. Prize-winning story writer Deborah Eisenberg has a new collection just out. It's called Twilight of the Superheroes. Alan Cheuse has a review.

ALAN CHEUSE: Moments such as these move all the stories in this collection, stories driven by emotive perceptions as though the usual compact and condensed feelings of a classic epiphany were suffused throughout an entire 20- or 30- or 40-page tale. It's as if something were being perfected at the core.

SIEGEL: The book is Twilight of the Superheroes by Deborah Eisenberg. Our reviewer, Alan Cheuse, teaches writing at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

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