John McGregor

Jon McGregor, This Isn't the Sort of Thing

The stories in This Isn't the Sort of Thing…, by contrast, are often very funny. But it's nervous laughter: McGregor never lets us relax entirely. In "Wires", we are comfortably settled in what feels like the start of a campus novel when things start to get very weird indeed. Likewise, he pulls the rug out from underneath us at the end of "We Were Just Driving Around", and performs a brilliantly black tail‑twist at the end of "The Last Ditch".

The Guardian