I’ve become disenchanted with book reviews. At one point in my life, I think I relied upon them more. Maybe I trusted the taste and judgment of the seasoned reviewers. Now, I feel a bad review has no predictive power as to whether or not I’ll like a book. A good review actually has more […]
Happy 2010, everyone. And get ready for a new spate of short fiction. We got some doozies forthcoming. Here are ten upcoming short story collections I’m looking forward to this year. Sam Shepard, Day out of Days (January) Amy Bloom, Where the God of Love Hangs Out (January) Stories linked by the motif of love. […]
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone. BookFox will be taking a break for a few weeks. Looking back over this year in reading, I discovered I read about 60 books — half short story collections and half novels, with a couple of nonfiction books thrown in. This is right about average for my reading […]
So here are my picks for best short prescription medication online no prescription story collections of the decade. If you want another take, check out the A.V. Club’s choices — we got a few in common, but a whole lot of differences. If you think I missed one, you’re wrong. Probably. But if you insist […]
“The Size of the World” by Joan Silber (Norton) In 2004, Joan Silber published a book of stories, “Ideas of Heaven,” that introduced a new way of structuring a collection. A character or other element in one story, would take center stage in the next, with the last story connecting back to the first, completing […]
Each year I do my best to read the two short story collections that the University of Georgia Press publish as winners of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. This year, one of the two books, “The Bigness of the World” by Lori Ostlund, has deservedly been seeing some attention. So, I’m going to […]
What the World Will Look Like When the Water Leaves Us Laura van den Berg Dzanc Books, 2009 Every six months or so I interview a short story writer I like for Luna Park, a writer who has a new collection of stories coming out and whose stuff I had seen awhile in literary magazines […]
During the next week, I’m going to be posting some recommendations for the best short story collections of 2009, as recommended by various experts (and I do mean experts — got some knowledgeable peeps ready to hold forth). Until that point, however, I refer you to some of the best-of lists cropping up about town. […]
Tod Goldberg writes short stories (Simplify) and novels (Living Dead Girl), in addition to just being a hilarious guy (see: blog). He’s also the Director of the MFA program at UC Riverside Palm Desert. BookFox had the opportunity to interview him by email for the release of his latest collection, “Other Resort Cities.” BookFox: So […]
The Morning News has a great memoir piece, a very new journalism/memoir style called "Joan Didion Crosses the Street." Out of a simple chance encounter with Joan Didion on a public street V.L. Hartmann reconstructs the significance of Joan Didion to her own childhood and her parents generation: When I was a teenager my mother […]
