Author lives in Chicago, and many of the stories are set there, so the collection should have good regional appeal. One of the stories in the collection, «The Regular» was nominated by Charles D'Ambrosio as the winner of the Emerging Writers Network Short Story Competition. Every story in the collection is about some aspect of performing, or performance, with a particular emphasis on music. Two of the stories feature celebrities; Abe Vigoda is the main character in one of the stories, so...
Reidy's debut book of fiction, Captive Audience was named an Indie Next Notable Book by the American Booksellers Association and published in French translationThe Voiceover Artist is a story about coming to terms with and overcoming disability, as well as reckoning one's identity with the expectations of society and family—universal themes that readers of many kinds of fiction will find appealing.
