We talkin’ short story now, sonny - and stories are viewed by many as the major leagues of literary fiction. Never mind that Grisham is a bona fide child of the Delta, knows its terrain and folkways, and has used it as a setting for some of his best-selling novels. In a similar flight of hubris, or what Hollywood calls “stretching,” Grisham, the reigning global grandmaster of the legal thriller, has written a collection of tales set smack-dab in the hallowed literary turf of the Mississippi Delta. Jordan didn’t exactly embarrass himself when he experimented with a career in baseball a few years ago but he didn’t redefine the sport, either. And then get back to what you do best, as His Airness did, more or less before it was too late. John Grisham, shake hands with Michael Jordan.
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