Byzantium: Stories has been getting good press. It’s been named a Best Summer Book by Publishers Weekly, the Chicago Tribune, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Amazon listed it as one of the top ten literary fiction books of July 2013, and it was featured in The Daily Beast‘s “Hot Reads” for the week of the July 29th. The book was also singled out by Alan Cheuse on NPR’s All Things Considered: “Talk about a debut, the title story in Ben Stroud’s Byzantium is not only the best in the book, it’s the best story by a new writer I’ve read in years.”