Abstract
Poor Advice as a collection reveals Lou Gaglia’s humor, imagination, and range: A woman is obsessed with pumping gas at one particular pump in one particular gas station. A six year old and his father kill over two hundred flies at a horse farm while the father wonders about life and death. A mustache is terrified of being shaved off. And in a parody of Dostoyevski novels, an ambitious Russian spy is sent to the United States to find out why God is on their side. Find these stories and many others in Lou Gaglia’s debut book--winner of the 2015 New Apple Literary Award for short story fiction, and the 2016 New York Book Festival Award for fiction.