“The language is totally unlike anything used by myself or any other writer of Ozarks fiction. Is it possible that Niangua will become your Stay More? Your ‘new’ style is magic realism at its best.”

—Donald Harington, author of The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks, The Choiring of the Trees, Enduring, and many others

“In this new collection, Steve Yates exhibits the best kind of ambition—in other words, he’s willing to take some big risks. Just when you think you know what’s coming, he throws you for yet another loop. I admire his work wholeheartedly, and I hope this book gets all the attention that it and the author deserve. Yates is one tremendous writer.”

—Steve Yarbrough, author of Safe from the Neighbors, Visible Spirits, Prisoners of War, The End of California, and many others

“Some Kinds of Love is nothing short of masterful. You would think this was the work of not one but a dozen writers, so impressive is Yates’s range of subject, setting, mood, and effect, from the quiet, ghastly intrigue of  ‘Hunter, Seeker’ to the blowout hilarity of the Green Tomato Marquesa’s triumph. In Steve Yates’s stories, pigs really do fly. He is a brilliant, and brilliantly inventive writer, and this book is sheer delight from beginning to end.”

—Ben Fountain, author of Brief Encounters with Che Guevara: Stories and Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk

“Steve Yates’s stories have that far-underrated quality: range. Yates writes across genres, cultures, sexual borders, and always brings it home. The stories are funny, sad, sometimes wonderfully odd, always inventive and intelligent. Yates is a truly fresh and interesting voice in a time when too often we seem to celebrate the flashy fiction of me, me, me.”

—Brad Watson, author of Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives: Stories and The Heaven of Mercury

“Some Kinds of Love is a richly entertaining book—inventive, irreverent, and, finally, moving. Steve Yates’s well-drawn cast of characters tracks love into its darkest corners with astonishing results. This wildly imagined, wise book surprises—in the best way possible—until the very last page.”

—Sabina Murray, Juniper Prize contest judge and author of The Caprices and Tales of the New World

“You only have to read one of these stories to know you’re in the hands of a master. But I recommend reading them all.”

—Tom Franklin, author of Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter, and Hell at the Breech

Some Kinds of Love: Stories by Steve Yates won the 2012 Juniper Prize in Fiction and will be available from The University of Massachusetts Press in April 2013. Learn more here.