one great short story writer, they say, who has complex plots it seems

[Mark Kohut]

One restriction she had little time for, however, was sticking to a single
point of view. Almost all her stories are written in the third person, and
almost all of them access the thoughts of multiple characters. Sometimes
she flicks briefly into the thoughts of an incidental character (in The
Letter Writers it is a nosy neighbour who intrudes on Emily’s lunch), while
elsewhere she cycles more methodically through a story’s cast, building a
scene from multiple perspectives. Oasis of Gaiety (1951), about a boozy
afternoon party, is a bravura example.
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