graham swift
by uzwi
Graham Swift is a watcher, a listener, the recorder of our days. “People are life,” one of his characters suggests, but life is also the social structures that context the living of it. The short stories in his third collection often focus, therefore, on occasions. Weddings and divorces, job interviews and funerals, all the puzzled collisions with the bureaucratic infrastructure, all the usual points of connection between the individual and the culture: if they aren’t providing a direct context, they’re never very far in the background… (more)
the m john harrison blog 
Really, really enjoyed his novel Waterland when I read it years ago, and think about it often. Haven’t read any of his short stories yet, though.