Stay Awake will pay a visit to tonight, Tuesday, at 7 p.m., to present his book of short stories.
"It's that uneasy feeling, that sometimes blurry line between the dreaming and waking lives, that is the theme of Dan Chaon's darkly beautiful short story collection Stay Awake," Michael Schaub of NPR says in his review of the book. "It almost reads like a novel in fragments. Although each story contains different characters, there's an unsettling thematic commonality among them."
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Chaon put his name on the map in 2009 with another dark piece, this time a novel, Await Your Reply.