HOW TO GET FIRED, by Evana Belich (Penguin, $37)
Many of the characters in Evana Belich’s debut short-story collection are heading for, or are in the midst of, a reckoning. They seethe with discontent. The 16 loosely connected tales bristle with jaded, disillusioned, angry men and women freighted by regrets and wishing their lives were different. Their jobs are often
