PositiveThe Boston GlobeIn the six almost-novellas contained in the book, a reader bears witness to a highly literary writer willing to take risk after risk after risk ... 'Dark Meadow' delivers an experience to rival anything on-screen. Dark Meadow, the screen name of a former pedophile ensconced in a bungalow in LA, lives to garden — but also to track and fight child porn, even as he battles his own lurking desires ... Equally consuming and, as it turns out, shattering is 'Nirvana,' a story about a man who invents a live hologram of an unnamed assassinated president and whose terminally ill wife is obsessed with Kurt Cobain ... The other two stories in Fortune Smiles, one set in South Korea (the title story), the other in New Orleans, would be fine examples of solid stories in most any other collection, but here they exert less power.