Paint a Vulgar Picture: Fiction inspired by The Smiths edited by Peter Wild

What the title says - each story taking its title from a Smiths song, some bearing an overt Smiths influence, other a more tacit one, and one or two seemingly simply taking the song title itself as a jumping-off point. Not many made much of an impression, although the two by writers who I've previously read - Scarlett Thomas' "Paint a Vulgar Picture" and Catherine O'Flynn's "You've Got Everything Now" - both have much of the flavour that makes me like their longer work; if there's a theme running through the stories, it's probably a fascination with the working class, the down-on-their-luck and the generally disenfranchised (punks, queers, drug-takers, criminals).