SOURCE: A review of Post-Adolescence: A Selection of Short Fiction, in Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 29, No. 4, Fall, 1992, pp. 592-93.

In the following review of a reissue of McAlmon's Post-Adolescence, Card agrees with Edward Lorusso that McAlmon's fiction could have benefited from a good editor.

Mary Garden remarked in an often-quoted interview that there are many men of talent but few men of genius. Robert McAlmon surely knew where he stood in relation to Joyce or Hemingway when he ironically titled his memoirs of Paris in the 1920s Being Geniuses Together (1938), the book by which he is best known. However, as some of his friends like Kay Boyle insisted, he had a talent for fiction, and Edward N. S. Lorusso has displayed good reasons to take that talent seriously, first with the reprinting of the novel Village (1990) and now with Post-Adolescence: A Selection of Short Fiction.

McAlmon wrote...