Errand | Critical Overview
''Errand'' has been widely praised by critics since its initial publication. It has not only won its share of prizes and been anthologized numerous times, but the volume in which it appears, Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories, received a National Book Critics Circle Award nomination in fiction and a Pulitzer Prize nomination for fiction. Writing in the introduction to The Best American Stories, 1988, Mark Helprin calls the story ‘‘a cold and brilliant imagining of the death of Chekhov.'' Mark Facknitz described it in similar terms, writing that "Errand''...
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