As the new century commenced, he published another story collection, "A Multitude of Sins" (2002), followed by the novels "The Lay Of The Land," the third Bascombe novel published during 2006, and "Canada", published during May 2012. According to Ford, "The Lay Of The Land" completed his series of Bascombe novels, but "Canada" was a stand-alone novel. However, during April 2013, Ford read from a new Frank Bascombe story without revealing to the audience whether it was part of a longer work. By 2014, it was confirmed that the story was to appear in the book "Let Me Be Frank With You", published during November of that year. The latter is a work consisting of four interconnected novellas (or "long stories": "I'm Here", "Everything Could Be Worse", "The New Normal" and "Deaths of Others"), all narrated by Frank Bascombe. "Let Me Be Frank With You" was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. It did not win the prize, but the selection committee praised the book for its "unflinching series of narratives, set in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, insightfully portraying a society in decline."