Barrett Bowlin, the fiction editor at Memorious, puts Byzantium on a 2013 anticipated books list, alongside the likes of George Saunders, Robert Olen Butler, Rick Bass, Lucy Corin, and Sam Lipsyte. I couldn’t be more honored. “Byzantium: Stories by Ben Stroud (Graywolf) – Stroud’s stories are these brief treasures I value when I come across them in literary journals, and it’s excellent to see that his first collection will be coming out in July. His work is incredibly intelligent, and it feels gratefully removed from the workshop environment to which we’ve become accustomed.” Check out the full list here:  http://memoriousmag.wordpress.com/2012/12/26/anticipated-books-of-2013-barrett-bowlins-list/