The Human Case, David Barringer’s second story collection (after 2000’s The Leap & Other Mistakes) , expands upon his direct, condensed, and simplistic style, maintaining the oft-depth rarely seen in story collections three times the size of this slim 97 page volume. These stories are at times capable of the witted tongue of Amy Hempel, at times delivering the domestic absurdity of Aimee Bender, but always uniquely David Barringer in the amalgamation of styles and narrative voices so obviously a part of this great writer’s psyche. The argument could be made that Barringer himself is the human in the case depicted in the collection’s title story.…
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