Dennis Must's book of short stories, Banjo Grease, was published by the Creative Arts Book Company, in Berkeley, CA. Tom Jenks, the editor (with Raymond Carver) of American Short Story Masterpieces, had this to say about it:

Dennis Must's first collection of short stories is no ordinary debut, but the mature work of a fully accomplished literary artist. Moreover, his originality, his deep irreverence, and his compassion for working-class men and women, parents and children, strivers and seekers of dreams, signal him as an inspired author in a new American grain-a visionary, poet, and realist dedicated to dramatizing the awkward, embarrassing, and painfully human intimacies, the crazy comedies that occur whenever we try to rise above ourselves and, likewise, whenever we plunge below. Banjo Grease is a book that spans the last half of the American 20th Century and laughs, sometimes genially, sometimes bitterly, at the preposterous lengths we Americans go in our pursuit of happiness.

And Kate Gale, the editor of Red Hen Press, said this about it:

These stories float through the reader like frozen images. Each one fits into the others unevenly as jagged glass. This is the essence of great fiction at the end of the century; Ray Carver and Thom Jones plowed into some stupendous force that whips along with a tilted wild energy. These are stories men will love for the railroads, the old cars, the grandfathers who are ex-cons, and women will love for the huddled desires, for the way each story tears at the shreds of love and leaves remains flapping that are somehow remnants worth having.