Sometime this summer the Internet developed a big, fat Web crush on Miranda July and the quirky little Web site she made pimping her short story collection No One Belongs Here More Than You. I…
Posts tagged Short Stories
Tired of waiting for the point
Months ago, or maybe even years, the Vodo and I had a conversation about books. It went something like this: Vodo: I only read short stories. Me: WHAT? Vodo: It’s what I write. I just…
The girl you come to when you wanted to wreck things
Earlier this week, I was chatting with my FFJ about how surprised and impressed I was by Jean Thompson’s short story collection Throw Like a Girl. FFJ was amazed that after all the reading I’ve…
Kissing in Manhattan
If you were not the author of, a reader of, or an actual copy of David Schickler‘s Kissing in Manhattan, I pretty much wanted nothing to do with you at all today. There was a…
the first book of 2005 to give me the SHIVERS
First of all, I just found this totally rad display of Julie Orringer’s writing notebooks. It’s beyond rad. Second of all, I finished reading Ms. Orringer’s How to Breathe Underwater last night. It’s a stunning,…