Vanity Fair Blurb, Hot Type

The issue with Nicole Kidman's confessions has this to say about Jim in its "Hot Type" section: "With a near-spooky sense of empathy and a wit that finds its mark like lightning, the stories in Jim Shepard's Like You'd Understand, Anyway transport readers light-years beyond what they think they know of the world, capturing the humanity in such odd ducks as a tortured French executioner and an amorous female cosmonaut."