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Hearing a voice from beyond the grave is usually a chilling, blood-curdling experience. However, being such a voice, issuing unheard from an improbable source (a parrot, a waterbed), offers the lost soul plenty of time to reflect on the missed opportunities of a life not fully lived. And though a lurid sensibility permeates the titles and tableaux of the "tabloid" tales in Pulitzer Prize-wining author Butler's latest collection, this vision of postmortem regret is at the heart of Butler's sad, mirthful stories. In "Jealous Husband Returns in F...Log In or Sign Up to Read More