Tuesday, January 5 2010
The Best American Short Stories 2009 edited by Alice Sebold and Heidi Pitlor
I found at least five of the stories here to be competent, but far from satisfying as an artistic whole.
Monday, September 15 2008
Fine Just the Way It Is by Annie Proulx
Proulx's antic, mordant vision of human life as fodder for a wildly inventive Mortality Machine is in full play here.

































