The only time I’ll probably link to Entertainment Weekly — but this article on McSweeneyism is great for exposing the jealousy and idiocy of McSweeney bashers.
Over at The Millions, it’s short story week, and so far they have one post on Deborah Eisenberg — as regular readers know, one of my favorite short story artists — and I totally sympathize with Garth’s desire to slow down and savor the last bits of her oeuvre, because I didn’t want to run out either. Also, there’s another post recommending some collections, of which I can second the nods toward Kelly Link and A.M. Holmes.
Over at the Emerging Writers Network, Dan Wickett has a list of notable literary journals he ran across at AWP.
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These are all nice stories but how so looking stories I like this all stories good luck.
i don’t know how i stumbled upon this blog, but it’s really good. actually nice to see a blog about books actually about books.
interesting story on mcsweeny’s. it’s always too easy to bash eggers & co. even i can do it.
Thanks for the nice comments! Yes, that was one of my motivations for starting this site – I came across too many blogs that always veered into the personal or eccentric topics near to the heart of the author but not always to the heart of the reader. So all books, all the time. And now, I suppose, all short stories all the time (or at least most of the time).