With her new dazzling collection of short fiction Schwartz has propelled herself to the front rank of inventive short story writers such as George Sanders and David Means Her characters are indefatigable New Yorkers whose long-established routines are thwarted by a swerve of fate or a mishap or a time warp A man generously lends his car to his ex-wife and is bewildered when she neglects to return it and keeps making implausible excuses not to bring...