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Ring is the Man
Lardner's voice is distinctive, and it cuts through all the noise in your life until all you hear are his characters speaking, telling their stories as best they know how, their dialect as real and immediate as it was when these stories were first written. Imagine Dorothy Parker covering the World Series, Oscar Wilde at a bridge club in suburbia, Dave Barry on the slow train from Chicago to New York. The only difference is in Lardner's restraint: his characters, when ridiculous, never fail to remind that to laugh at them is to laugh at ourselves as well, a fact which can be comforting and disconcerting at the same time.

Best of the collection: "Alibi Ike," "Liberty Hall," "There Are Smiles," "The Anniversary."

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A Genuis at the Top of His Game
As a young boy, Hemmingway signed his first fiction "Ring Lardner Jr." (this was long before there was a Ring Lardner Jr.) Read Ring Sr's short fiction and see why young Hemmingway admired him so much. Lardner is one of the trancendent talents America has ever produced. His stories are rich in pathos and punchlines. Nobody is funnier in print, and nobody knew the human condition better. Read him once, and you'll read Lardner for life. My personal favorites "Haircut" and "Albi Ike".

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Greatest Writer Ever
Let's just face it, Ring Lardner was the greatest writer ever. "You Know Me Al" did stink, but these short stories prove that there was no one better. He had emotion and character and plot and his stories are the best.