All Around Their Taking Down the Lights

Tartt First Fiction Award Winner! All Around They’re Taking Down the Lights is about men and sometimes movies and the underside of trying to live up to male tropes. The men in these stories hurt and get hurt. They push too hard and not enough. They disappoint others and themselves. Their movie-moves damage. And their small successes, sometimes empty, sometimes meaningful, happen in places away from spotlights, far from Hollywood.