SOURCE: Moss, Marilyn. Review of Cat Scratch Fever, by Robert Kelly. Review of Contemporary Fiction 12, no. 1 (Spring 1992): 147–48.

In the following review of Cat Scratch Fever, Moss discusses the “craftsmanship” of Kelly's fiction.

Robert Kelly's new collection of short fiction [Cat Scratch Fever] is a beautifully crafted ode to our contemporary world. If we find our own selves reflected back in any of the thirty-one pieces here, then we are in good company—for Kelly is a craftsman who shares our intimate thoughts and knows how to glance along with us at the chambers of our imagination. In one instance we are with the narrator of the title piece, “Cat Scratch Fever,” climbing up through the trees to gaze at a beautiful woman who is the object of a first love. In the next instance we are sitting in a café, in the short piece entitled “The New Life...